History

• WWI-era Russian merchant shipwreck discovered during a North Sea windfarm survey.
• The shipwreck, believed to be the SS Tobol, was torpedoed in 1917.
• Efforts are underway to protect and preserve the wreck as an archaeological site.

A Russian merchant shipwreck from World War I has been discovered in the North Sea during a survey for what could become the first floating offshore windfarm. The ship is believed to be the SS Tobol, torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1917, reports Press & Journal.

https://mfame.guru/wwi-era-russian-shipwreck-found-during-north-sea-windfarm-survey/

The government has granted the wreck of a ship which sank more than 200 years ago special protection, reports AOL

• The Earl of Abergavenny sank off the coast of Weymouth, Dorset, with the loss of some 250 lives, in what is considered one of the UK’s worst maritime disasters.
• It was carrying more than 60 chests of silver bullion that have never been found.
• John Wordsworth, the brother of renowned Romantic poet William Wordsworth, was the ship’s captain.
• The 1,300-tonne ship set...

https://mfame.guru/preserving-the-legacy-historic-shipwreck-off-dorset-secures-special-protection-status/

The United Kingdom has ceremoniously returned the bell from the USS Jacob Jones, the first American destroyer lost to enemy attack during World War I, to the United States.

Second Sea Lord Vice Admiral Martin Connell handed the bell to Admiral James W. Kilby, the U.S. Vice Chief of Naval Operations, during the first Sea Lord’s annual seapower conference at Lancaster House in London.

In December 1917, a German U-boat sank the USS Jacob Jones, resulting in...

https://mfame.guru/symbol-of-sacrifice-uss-jacob-jones-bell-returns-home/