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The Photo Gallery of Cargo Loss - Photos & Lessons Learned

"River Rescue" - M/V MSC Sabrina - April 2008

"Paradise & Pirates" - S/V Le Ponant - April 2008

"The Light At The End of The Tunnel" - M/V Zhen Hua 10 & 23 - Mar. 2008

"Back To The Beach" - M/V Riverdance - Feb. 2008

"Glider Operations At Heathrow" -- B-777 Crash - Jan. 2008

"Fighting Fires On Mars"- Martin Mars - Dec. 2007

"Steeplechase" - A340 - Nov. 2007

"Explorer Ship Down" - M/V Explorer - Nov. 2007

"Ship-To-Shore-Onto Ship" - Nov. 2007

"Den Den Done" - M/V Denden - Sept. 2007

"Stack Attack!" - M/V Ital Florida - July 2007

"Riding Down The Marquis" - M/V Rickmars Dalian - June2007

"Carrying Coal To Newcastle" - M/V Pasha Bulker - June 2007

"Between A Yacht & A Hard Place" M/V Madame Butterfly - May 2007

"Boxing Up The Rhine" M/V Excelsior - April 2007

"Best Worst Laid Plans?" M/V Republica di Genoa - March 2007

"Operation Jumbo Drop" - M/V Jumbo Challenger - March 2007

"Crack'n On The Sidmouth" - M/V MSC Napoli - Jan. 2007 - Disaster In Real Time

"Wrong Way Agulhas?" - M/V Safmarine Agulhas - Jan. 2007

"Hook, Line & Sink Her!" - A Cargo Law Mystery

"Mighty Sinking" - M/v Mighty Servant 3 - Dec. 2006

"Full Speed Ahead!" - M/V Alva Star - Nov. 2006

"WhereThe Trade Winds Blew" - Oct. 2006

"Maersk Montevideo Melee!" - M/V Leda Maersk - Oct. 2006

"Laying Down On The Job" - M/V Cougar Ace -- Aug. 2006 -- Amazing !

"Vine Ripened Tires" - M/V Saga Spray -- May 2006

M/V APL Panama

"Scheldt Snafu!" - M/V Grande Nigeria - Feb. 2006 because Ship Happens©

"A Day At The Beach" - M/V APL Panama - Jan. 2006

"Curse of The Pequot" - M/V Maersk Holyhead - Jan. 2006

"NO Rails" - destruction of New Orleans - Dec. 2005

"Backhaul !" - for July 2005

"The Boeing Tri-Motor" - for April 2005

"Catch of The Day" - for March 2005

"One Brick Short of A Runway" - for Jan. 2005

M/T Vicuna Explodes - for Jan. 2005

"Unstacked" - overboard & Dr. Beach - Nov. 2004

"Coal Face" - the cargo was danger - July 2004

"Sea (to) Land Express" - May 2004

"Super Loss" - March 2004

"Rocknes Monster" - Feb. 2004

"On A Wing & A Prayer" - Jan. 2004

"Stepping In It" - Dec. 2003

"Angel Fire" - Nov. 2003

"Pelican's Peril" - collision on River Scheldt - Aug. 2003

"Broken Spirit" - M/V Tasman Spirit - Aug. 2003

Tell It To The U.S. Marines! - A Symbol of Our Day of Infamy - Sept. 11

M/V Modern Drive - Incredible Sea Story! Incredible Sea Photos!

U.S. Navy EP-3 Crew Is Home ! - Our People Returned !!

Includes A U.S. "Fantasy Apology" & 1st Hand Accounts

The Cargo Letter Coverage of the U.S. Navy EP-3E China Incident

Tune in daily to this site for reports of casualties at sea! Posted daily!

Proud Voyage of LST-325 - They Made It! 4250 Mile Voyage - 72 Year Old Crew!

Attack On USS Cole (DDG-67) - Dramatic Photos! Cole Comes Home!

Odd Coincidences At Port of Oakland!

M/V Glasgow Maersk Takes Her Bows - 29 June 2000 maritime hit with pictures

M/V Tampa Maersk - on a dock diet! - It had happened before!- photos!

New Features: Internet Gizmos - the strange, bizarre, fun & useful sites of the web - CLICK HERE -- the site for "fun & the strange" on the web

 

***This Month in U.S. Navy History - March. 2008

1781 - Continental sloop ship Saratoga goes down will all hands in a sudden gale, three days after sailing from Cap Francais, Haiti.

1799 - USS Constitution recaptures American sloop Neutrality from France.

1800 - USS Essex becomes the 1st U.S. Navy vessel to pass the Cape of Good Hope.

1814 - HMS Phoebe & Cherub capture USS Essex off Valparaiso, Chile. Before capture, Essex had captured 24 British prizes during the War of 1812.

1848 - USS Supply reaches the Bay of Acre, anchoring under Mount Carmel near the village of Haifa, during its expedition to explore the Dead Sea and the River Jordan.

1880 - USS Constellation departs New York with food for famine victims in Ireland.

1898 - Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt proposes the Navy investigates the military application of Samuel Langley's flying machine, beginning naval aviation.

1922 - USS Jupiter is recommissioned as USS Langley (CV 1), the Navy's 1st aircraft carrier.

U.S. Navy History Center

***San Diego Aircraft Carrier Museum Takes Shape ....... as the star of the show as ex-USS Midway is an historic marvel along historic Navy Pier on North Harbor Drive. Contribute!

LST 325 Memorial Ship - Ended The 4250 Mile Voyage Home -- Average Crew Age 72 -- They Made It!

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Organization Index of The United States Army - for our editor, Captain McD

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Historic Register of Museum Ships

Historic Ships to Visit -- from NPS Maritime Heritage Program

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U.S. Navy Aircraft Carriers #2

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The Search For USS Yorktown

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U.S. Navy Units Are - GATORS

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The Proud Voyage of LST 325 - A Cargo Letter Special Feature

LST 325 Memorial Ship - making the long voyage home

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Landing Ship Tribute Site

Ex-USS LST-1008 - At Qingdao Naval Museum, PRC

Army Ships - the ghost fleet

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U.S. National D-Day Museum

Whittaker's Brown Water Navy

Gator Navy in Vietnam

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Battleships of The United States

Battleship Listings By State Names

Battleships of The World

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German Battleship Classes

Italian Battleship Classes

Japanese Battleship Classes

Battleships & Battle Cruisers

Battleship Gunnery 1920- 1945

Battleship Combat Simulation

Battleship Bismarck

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Great White Fleet - The Fleet

Great White Fleet - U.S. Navy

U.S. Battleship Development - from the start

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Surviving Ships of WWII

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U.S.S. Alabama BB 60 - a favorite visiting spot of The Cargo Letter

U.S.S. Arizona BB 39

Pearl Harbor Remembered

U.S.S. Arizona Memorial

Battleship Row On Dec. 7

Carrier Row

U.S.S. California BB 44

U.S.S. Colorado BB 45

U.S.S. Connecticut BB18

U.S.S. Indiana BB 58

U.S.S. Iowa BB 61

Veteran's Assn.

U.S.S. Maine

Panoramic Photos of Wreck of U.S.S. Maine

U.S.S. Massachusetts BB 59

U.S.S. Missouri BB63

U.S.S. Missouri Memorial - at Pearl Harbor

U.S.S. Maryland BB46 Veterans Association

U.S.S. Monitor

U.S.S. Nevada BB 36

U.S.S. New Jersey BB 62

U.S.S. North Carolina BB 58

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U.S.S. Oklahoma BB 37

U.S.S. Pennsylvania BB 38

U.S.S. South Carolina BB 26

U.S.S. South Dakota BB 64

U.S.S. Texas BB 35

U.S.S. Texas BB 35

U.S.S. Utah BB 31

U.S.S. Utah BB31 - Pearl Harbor

U.S.S. Virginia BB 13

U.S.S. Washington BB 56

U.S.S. West Virginia BB 48

U.S.S. West Virginia Photo Archive

U.S.S. Wisconsin BB 64

BB-64 USS Wisconsin

USS Wisconsin Association

Dictionary of U.S. Fighting Ships For USS Wisconsin

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U.S. Cruisers List - since 1883

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U.S. Cruisers since 1861, photos & history

U.S. Navy Cruisers Sailors Association

U.S. Navy Photos of Cruisers 1775-1941

USS California - nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser

USS Cowpens

USS Chosin

USS Gettysburg

USS Indianapolis- CA 35- Still At Sea

USS Indianapolis

Worst Disaster in U.S. Naval History - the survivors

USS Los Angeles - CA-135

History of the Heavy Cruiser USS Los Angeles

Memorials

U.S.S. Los Angeles - the museum

Photo Archive

USS Los Angeles - the new vessel SSN-688

USS Princeton

USS Salem

USS San Jacinto

USS Shiloh

USS Vincennes

USS Vincennes Message Boards

Destroyers

Tin Can Sailors - the ultimate Destroyer site

Destroyers Online

Destroyer History

Destroyer Escorts

Destroyer Museum Ships

Destroyer Photo Archives

Destroyer & Destroyer Escort Photo Gallery

Links for many U.S. Destroyer Associations

U.S. Destroyers & Escorts By Class

U.S. Navy Destroyers

U.S. Navy Destroyers Listed by Class

U.S. Benson - Livermore Destroyers

U.S. Fletcher Class Destroyers of WW II

Destroyer Squadron 21

Corvettes of the Australian Navy

Destroyer Tenders

Destroyer Tenders #2

WWII Destroyer Escort

Destroyer Escorts in World War II

Destroyer Escort Association

Destroyer Escort Divisions

Destroyer Escort Museum

USS Hubbard (DE 211/APD 53) - Destroyer Escort At War

USS Wintle (DE-25)

Destroyer Escort Memorial Page -- Standing Eternal Watch

USS Buchanan - DDG-14 - great loss photos at "Final Mission"

USS Cassin Young

USS Bush

Naval Supply & Auxiliary Vessels

USS Adirondack - AGC-15

USS Liberty - American Honor Forgotten

USS Oxford - AG 159 / AGTR 1

USS Saugatuck - last U.S. Navy T2 Oiler

USS Watchman - AGR-16 - picket ship

U.S. Navy Auxiliary Ships - High Speed Vessels

Index of Ammunition Ships

Index of Provision Store Ships

Auxiliary Ships

Canadian Navy Auxiliary Ships

National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors

Auxiliary Vessel Models

Submarines

World Submarine Fleets

Saga of The Submarine

Submarine Sailor - from Don Gentry - the best

Submarine Chronology

Submarine World Network

British Submarines

Submarines of The Royal Navy

Dutch Submarines

French Submarines

Russian Submarines

U.S. Navy Submarines Group Two

U.S. Navy Submarines - Pacific Fleet

Submarine Museum Master List

Submarine Museums List #2 - extensive

Confederate States of America Submarine - CSS Hunley - the 1st operational sub in world history

C.S.S. Hunley - the main site

Recovery Information

Evolution of Submarines

The Submarine Periscope

History of The Periscope

Submarine Periscope & Approach Techniques

Fleet Submarine Periscope Manual

Modern Submarines

Submarine Weapons

Submarine Armament

Submarine Development & Design

History of The Submarine & Links

Submarines, Secrets & Spies - from PBS

Russian Submarine Network - you figure it out

Submarine Tenders

Submarine Wives Club

For Kids - Build a Submarine

Submarine World Network

Major Sub Disasters - from National Geographic

Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicles

Submarine Escape Diving Suits

Russian Submarine "Kursk" tragedy -- from CNN

Kursk tragedy -- from BBC

Undersea Warfare

Submarines of World War I

British Submarines 1900 - 1918

Submarines of World War II

U-Boats of World War II - the complete reference

U-Boat War 1939-1945

British Submarines of World War II

Submarines of The Japanese Imperial Navy

U.S. Submarines of WWII 1940-1945

U.S. World War II Submarine List

U.S. Peacetime Submarine Accidents

U.S. Navy Centennial Submarine Center

Technology Through The Years

U.S. Navy Submarines

Submarine Sailor -- a history of all U.S. Boats in WWII - from Don Gentry

Through The Looking Glass - photo essay of U.S. subs 1900 - 1940

U.S. Navy Submarine School

U.S. Submarine History

SSN-21 Seawolf Class

Submarine Laid Mines

Submarine Launched Harpoon Missiles

Submarine Launched Tomahawk Missiles

Submarines in the Cold War

U.S. Submarines of WWII 1941-1945

Submarines 1939 -1945

The Famous Mark 48 Torpedo

U.S. Navy Northwest Region

U.S. Naval Submarine Base At San Diego, CA

U.S. Naval Submarine Base at Bangor, WA

U.S. Naval Submarine Base At Kings Bay, Georgia

U.S. Naval Submarine League

U.S. Navy Online Officer Locator

U.S. Navy Submarine Warfare Division

U.S. Peacetime Submarine Accidents

U.S. Navy Submarines on "Eternal Patrol"

U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II

Internet Resources For Sub Vets

U.S.S. Nautilus - SSN 571, world's first nuclear submarine at Groton, CT -seen to surface by your The Cargo Letter editor in 1956 at Long Beach for the 1st Pacific cruise.

World War II Submarine Kills

Submarine Sailor -- a history of all U.S. Boats in WWII

U-Boats of World War II - the complete reference

U-Boat War 1939-1945

Shopping

Submarine Ship's Store

Back To Maritime History Index

Tugs & Work Boats

Tugboats

U.S. Navy Harbor Tug Boats

Tug Crew Archives

National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors

Army Corps of Engineers Tug Photo Archives

Civil War Tug Photo Archives

World War I Tug Photo Archives

Coast Guard Tugs Association

Army Tugs

The Complete Tugboat Website

The Docking Yard of the Virtual Tugboat

The Wheelhouse of the Virtual Tugboat

The Crews' Quarters

The Tugboat Galley Cookbook

The Engine Room

Tugboat History

U.S. Patrol Motor Torpedo Boat - The Famous "PT Boat" - U.S. Navy

PT Boats, Inc.

PT Page

PT Boat Knights of The Sea

PT Boat Lists

PT Boat Squadrons

PT Boat Losses of World War II

PT Boat Museum

PT Boat Operations In the English Channel - 1944

PT Boat D-Day Operations

PT Boat Page

ELCO PT Boats

ELCO 80' Boat

President John F. Kennedy - PT 109

PT 109

PT 109 - history

PT 109 - the movie

PT 109 Q & A

PT Boat Commander - well, GI Joe has his place

PT Boat Specifications

PT Boats Laid Down

PT Boat Tenders

PT 103 Model

PT 305 - project

PT 309 - "Oh Frankie" - the last combat veteran is in danger!

Crew of PT 309

Visitors Guide PT 309