coldisthesea:

HMS Ark Royal 1941

Sinking in the Mediterranean sea Nov. 14, 1941. Taken by my father, a Marine on board HMS Malaya. Only one fatality ocurred during this incident, that of Able Seaman Mitchell who was killed at the time the ship was hit by the torpedo. All other hands were saved. Many of the 1,487 survivors being taken on to HMS Legion who can be seen attending the Ark Royal in this set.” -Pining for the Fjords

helmhammerhand:

The Wilhelm Gustloff’s final voyage was during Operation Hannibal in January 1945, when it was sunk while participating in the evacuation of civilians and personnel who were surrounded by the Red Army in East Prussia. The Gustloff was hit by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea on the night of 30 January 1945 and sank in less than 45 minutes. An estimated 9,400 people were killed in the sinking.^[1][2] If accurate, this would be the largest known loss of life occurring during a single ship sinking in recorded maritime history.

book-aesthete:

South
Ernest Shackleton. William Heinemann, 1919.

First edition, new impression, half-title, colour frontispiece, plates and maps (one large folding), one plate loose, publisher’s pictorial cloth silver-gilt

craigpeterlow:

The sailboat Le Papillon cruising from Baltimore to Maine ran aground off the shore of Saltaire,  Fire Island, New York.  The crew of three abandoned the boat and made it to shore.  The boat suffered major hull damage and the steel boat will be cut apart and removed from the beach.  The vessel has made several trips throughout the world and it’s an unfortunate end.

For more information and history of Fire Island ship wrecks  —http://tinyurl.com/3nxvp97

greatestgeneration:

Ship beached 18 Nov 1942

Guadalcanal

jimmystagger:

The SS Andrea Doria sinking off Nantucket, Massachusetts in 1956.