SS Rock Island Bridge information

Rock Island Bridge was a steam cargo ship built in 1919 by Submarine Boat Company of Newark for the United States Shipping Board (USSB) as part of the...

than leaving them undisturbed.[dead link] The islands are the site of many shipwrecks. The liberty ship SS Henry Bergh, a converted troop carrier, hit West...

across the Straits of Mackinac to the car-free Mackinac Island but before the Mackinac Bridge was built, large numbers of ferries carried people and cars...

facilities on the island. A "2-way" vehicle/rail bridge is the main access to the island. Secondary vehicle and rail bridges (the "Swing Bridge") at the southwestern...

SS El Faro was a United States-flagged, combination roll-on/roll-off and lift-on/lift-off cargo ship crewed by U.S. merchant mariners. Built in 1975 by...

signal was sent out immediately. SS Easterling which was approximately 60 miles away responded and rushed to Lakeside Bridge's aid. However, due to heavy rain...

January 1988 Uboat, Balladier wrecksite, SS Leonita wrecksite, Lakeside Bridge atlanticscuba Rock Island Bridge wrecksite, Takusei Maru Uboat.net Suwied...

USS Rock (SS/SSR/AGSS-274), a Gato-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the rockfish, a striped bass found in the Chesapeake...

SS United States is a retired ocean liner built between 1950 and 1951 for United States Lines. She is the largest ocean liner constructed entirely in the...

1 square miles (2.8 km2). East Island's most notable natural feature is Arch Rock, a 40-foot (12 m) high natural bridge. As recently as the end of the...

wreck". The Times. No. 42414. London. 19 May 1920. col E, p. 6. "SS.ROCK ISLAND BRIDGE". Aquaphotography. Archived from the original on 1 December 2014...

commercially. The western tip of the island is home to several shipwrecks that are very popular with scuba divers, including the SS America. The NPS Submerged Resources...

SS Andrea Doria (pronounced [anˈdrɛːa ˈdɔːrja]) was a luxury transatlantic ocean liner of the Italian Line (Società di navigazione Italia), put into service...

Fabricius (Italian: Ponte Fabricio, "Fabrician Bridge") or Ponte dei Quattro Capi, is the oldest extant bridge in Rome, Italy. Built in 62 BC, it spans half...

SS Thistlegorm was a British cargo steamship that was built in Sunderland, North East England in 1940 and sunk by German bomber aircraft in the Red Sea...

Race Rock. "Fisher's Island, Race Point, Race Point Ledge, Race Rock lighthouse". Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 12 November 2022. "USS Razorback (SS-394)"...

New York Connecting Railroad Bridge, now called the Hell Gate Bridge, which connects Wards Island and Queens. The bridge provides a direct rail link between...

to the island was added to the bridge in 1930, but elevator service was discontinued in 1955 following the opening of the Roosevelt Island Bridge, and the...

the summer of 1927, when she freed the CNR liner SS Prince Rupert from the clutches of Ripple Rock in Seymour Narrows, a treacherous, three-mile tidal...

SS Great Eastern was an iron sail-powered, paddle wheel and screw-propelled steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and built by John Scott Russell...

Kenwood Bridge was a steam cargo ship built in 1919 by Submarine Boat Company of Newark for the United States Shipping Board (USSB) as part of the wartime...

to an island in New York Harbor next to Liberty Island, named for a "dark-skinned" fisherman who inhabited the island for many years. The island was artificial...

years ago. Great Barrier Island has been linked to the North Island for most of the last 18 million years, by a land bridge to the south along the Colville...