Paul Allen

Navy Research Vessel R/V Petrel Righted and Refloated

R/V Petrel this week in Scotland. Photo via Reddit

The U.S. Navy research vessel that tipped over in a Scotland drydock, injuring 35, has been righted and refloated this week, according to local press reports.

Posts on social media show the drydock at Imperial Dock begin to flood on Sunday and R/V Petrel being positioned by tugs on Tuesday.

The 3,710-ton Petrel violently tipped over in a drydock in Edinburgh on March 22 while under repair after being laid up since 2020. The ship was left at a...

https://news.usni.org/2023/05/04/navy-research-vessel-r-v-petrel-righted-and-refloated

U.S. Navy Officials Heading to Scotland to Investigate R/V Petrel Dry Dock Incident

R/V Petrel on its side in a Scotland dry dock on March 22, 2023. Photo Via Twitter

The Navy has launched its own investigation into what led a service-owned research vessel to topple over while in dry dock in Scotland.

R/V Petrel violently slipped off its supports in the dry dock and ended up on a 45 degrees list while in dry dock at Imperial Dock in Leith, Edinburgh, injuring at least 33 people, USNI News previously reported. The ship, now owned by the Navy, was used in several shipwreck...

https://news.usni.org/2023/03/27/u-s-navy-officials-heading-to-scotland-to-investigate-r-v-petrel-dry-dock-incident

Research Ship that Found Famous WWII Wrecks Damaged in Scotland Dry Dock, Several Injured

R/V Petrel on its side in a Scotland dry dock on March 22, 2023. Photo Via Twitter

A Navy research vessel tipped over while in dry dock in Edinburgh Wednesday, according to local reports.

R/V Petrel appeared to tip about 45 degrees while in dry dock in the Imperial Dock in Leith, Edinburgh, according to the newspaper The Independent. The paper reported 21 people were taken to the hospital with injuries with another 12 treated at the dock and released.

Petrel dislodged from the dry dock a Scotland...

https://news.usni.org/2023/03/22/research-ship-that-found-famous-wwii-wrecks-damaged-in-scotland-dry-dock-several-injured

VIDEO: Wreck Discovered of WWII Japanese Carrier Key to Pearl Harbor Attack

Wreck Imperial Japanese Navy Carrier Kaga on Oct. 17. Vulcan Image

Researchers have discovered the wreck of the Imperial Japanese Navy carrier that was key to the attack on Pearl Harbor and that sank at the Battle of Midway, U.S. officials confirmed to USNI News on Friday.

IJN Kaga was found in the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument off the Midway Atoll by the crew of R/V Petrel, the lead ship in the ongoing expedition funded by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen to find ships and...

https://news.usni.org/2019/10/18/video-wreck-discovered-of-wwii-japanese-carrier-key-to-pearl-harbor-attack

Wreckage Of World War II-Era Carrier USS Wasp Discovered

Wreckage of USS Wasp (CV-7). Photo released by R/V Petrel.

The late Paul Allen’s research team announced they found the wreckage of the World War II-era aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-7) in the Coral Sea.

The team aboard R/V Petrel found the Wasp wreck nearly 14,000 feet below the sea’s surface. Petrel is a research and exploration vessel used by Allen’s researchers to locate historically significant shipwrecks and explore underwater ecosystems. Wasp was found in January, but the discovery was not...

https://news.usni.org/2019/03/13/wreckage-of-wwii-era-carrier-wasp-discovered

WWII Aircraft Carrier USS Hornet Discovered in Solomon Islands

5 inch guns of the USS Hornet. R/V Petrel photo.

The late Paul Allen’s research team discovered the wreckage of World War II’s USS Hornet (CV-8), the aircraft carrier that launched the Doolittle Raid and participated in the Battle of Midway before being sunk in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands by Japanese dive bombers, torpedo planes and ship-launched torpedoes.

“Wreckage of the USS Hornet was discovered in late January 2019, 5,330 meters (nearly 17,500 feet) below the surface, resting on the...

https://news.usni.org/2019/02/12/41053

Wreck of First Japanese Battleship Sunk By U.S. Navy in WWII Found

Japanese Imperial Navy Ship Hiei after discovery by crew of R/V Petrel

A team of researchers from the organization started by billionaire philanthropist Paul Allen found the wreck of the first Japanese battleship sunk by the U.S. Navy during World War II.

The Imperial Japanese Navy ship Hiei was found lying upside down on the sea floor about 2,952 feet below the surface, more than 76 years after sinking in waters northwest of Savo Island in the Solomon Islands chain, according to an Instagram...

https://news.usni.org/2019/02/06/40942

Billionaire Ocean Explorer, Philanthropist Paul Allen Dies

Paul Allen

Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder, billionaire philanthropist and ocean explorer who helped find several lost World War II warships, died on Monday.

Allen, 65, died following a fight with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that was first diagnosed in 2009. In an announcement two weeks ago, Allen said his cancer had returned and he had vowed to seek treatment for the disease.

Allen co-founded software giant Microsoft in 1975 with Bill Gates and helped it grow until his departure from the company in...

https://news.usni.org/2018/10/15/billionaire-ocean-explorer-philanthropist-paul-allen-dies

Seldom Has Such a Beautiful Motor Yacht Graced Our Seas Never Mind Cape Town

Octopus

I have been umming and ahhing about this.  Should I post an article on m/y Octopus or not?  Her beauty and splendour have captivated many since she arrived in Cape Town 20 days ago and plenty of people have already written about her. But I just couldn’t resist saying something too and adding some images of this exceptional vessel … because I think she’s the most beautiful motor yacht in the world.

m/y Octopus has been to Cape Town and Durban on many an occasion and is a head turner of note. ...

http://www.sashippingnews.com/2018/10/03/seldom-has-such-a-beautiful-motor-yacht-graced-our-seas-never-mind-cape-town/

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