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Japanese battleship Ise
On 12 April 1922, while at Yokohama, "Ise" hosted a delegation which included the Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VIII), who was accompanied by his second cousin, the future Lord Mountbatten of Burma. Captain Kanna Norikazu relieved Nagasawa on 1 December. The ship aided survivors of the Great Kantō earthquake in September 1923. From the early 1920s through the late 1930s, "Ise" mostly cruised off the coast of China. Little detailed information is available about her activities during the 1920s, although she helped sink the obsolete destroyer during gunnery training on 10 August 1926. The ship was overhauled in 1928–1929, during which her forward superstructure was enlarged and her aviation facilities improved.
Ise-class battleship
The sinking of the British capital ships "Prince of Wales" and "Repulse" by Japanese land-based aircraft on 10 December 1941 led the IJN to realize that battleships could not operate in the face of enemy aircraft and required friendly air support to protect them. The loss of four Japanese aircraft carriers during the Battle of Midway in June 1942 severely limited the ability of the IJN to provide any air cover and alternatives were sought. Earlier proposals to convert one or more battleships into carriers had been made and rejected at the beginning of the war, but they were revived after Midway. Plans for more elaborate conversions were rejected on the grounds of expense and, most critically, time, and the IJN settled on removing the rear pair of turrets and replacing them with a flight deck equipped with two catapults to launch floatplanes. The "Ise"-class ships were selected for the conversion because "Hyūga" had suffered an explosion in Turret No. 5 in early May that virtually destroyed the turret and their Turret No. 6 could not elevate to the full +43 degrees deemed necessary for the long-range engagement anticipated by the IJN. The "Fusō"s were scheduled to follow once the first two were completed.
List of US Navy ships sunk or damaged in action during World War II
USS "Liscome Bay" (CVE-56) sunk after being torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-175 off Gilbert Islands, 24 November 1943.
West Sayville, New York
Edith Corse Evans, heir to a hide-tanning and real estate fortune with a West Sayville summer home, was a passenger on the "Titanic". During the sinking of the "Titanic" on April 15, 1912, Edith Corse Evans gave up the last seat on the last lifeboat to save a mother of six children. Evans lost her life after the ocean liner sunk into the Atlantic Ocean, but her efforts saved Caroline Brown from Acton, Massachusetts.
Ise-class battleship
In early November the catapults were removed from both ships, and they loaded troops and munitions later that month. While en route they were diverted to the Spratly Islands upon reports of heavy air raids at Manila. After off-loading their cargo, they sailed for Lingga Island, near Singapore, on 20 November. They transferred to Cam Ranh Bay, French Indochina and "Hyūga" became flagship of the 5th Fleet there on 14 December. The division sailed for Singapore on 30 December and Vice Admiral Kiyohide Shima transferred his flag to the light cruiser on arrival there the following day. The division continued onwards to Lingga. Its planned return to Japan was delayed by attacks by the American Third Fleet on targets in Indochina and southern China that sank two oil tankers that were intended to refuel the division.
The IJN then decided to use the sisters and their escorts to bring a load of petrol, rubber, tin and other strategic minerals back to Japan after the American carriers departed the South China Sea (Operation Kita). They loaded their cargoes beginning on 6 February at Singapore and departed four days later. Also carrying some 1,150 oilfield workers, they were escorted by "Ōyodo" and three destroyers. Decrypted Japanese radio signals revealed the Japanese plan to the Allies, and 15 submarines were positioned along their anticipated route in an attempt to intercept and sink the ships. An additional 11 were moved into position while the group was en route, but only three were ultimately able to attack. None of them were successful before the Japanese reached Kure on 20 February. The Fourth Carrier Division was disbanded on 1 March and the sisters were reduced to 1st rank reserve ships. On 19 March Kure was attacked by aircraft from Task Force 58 and "Hyūga" was hit three times by bombs that killed 37 men and wounded 52. Her gunners claimed to have shot down one American dive bomber during the attack. "Ise" was hit twice during the attack, but her casualties, if any, are unknown.
The ships were turned into floating AA batteries over the next several months although it availed them little when they were attacked again by American carrier aircraft in July. On the 24th "Ise" was struck by five bombs and near missed multiple times; all told she lost 50 crewmen killed and many others wounded. The bombs started numerous leaks and "Ise" began to settle by the bow, although she was returned to an even keel after three days pumping. "Hyūga" was a primary focus of the attack and she received 10 direct hits and up to 30 near misses. She was badly damaged with some 200-odd crewmen killed and 600 wounded during the attack. She slowly foundered over the next two days and was not attacked when the Americans returned four days later. This time it was "Ise"s turn and she was struck 11 or more times with many near misses that put her on the bottom in shallow water with a 15 degree list. The sisters were struck off the Navy List in November and their wrecks were scrapped after the war.
Ise (river)
To begin with 100 men were employed on the task. They freed logs that had jammed at critical points such as sluices, bends, bridges and ox-bows. Later a smaller workforce was employed. Under good conditions it took 10 days for log rafts to reach Celle, otherwise it might take up to 3 weeks. There were 10 assembly points on the Ise where the logs were tied together into rafts. The rafts of logs were about 2.5 metres wide by around 20 metres long. The logging crew comprised 2 or 3 raftsmen. Losses occurred as a result of logs sinking or being stolen en route. In Gifhorn, where the Ise enters the Aller, the logs continued to Celle. In Celle they came to rest at a needle dam and were then hauled ashore. After the death of Duke George William, in 1705, timber rafting on the Ise and Aller went into decline. When the royal household moved to Hanover, Celle lost the baroque lustre of a "Residenz" town. Raft dealers took over the business. Around 1880, timber rafting on the Ise finally petered out. The cause was the upgrade of tracks and roads and the construction of sawmills in the vicinity of the forests.
HMS Esk (H15)
On 31 August 1940, she sailed with "Intrepid", "Icarus", "Ivanhoe" and "Express" to lay a minefield off the Dutch coast, north of Texel. "Express" hit a mine in a newly-laid German field that night and had her bow blown off. "Esk" closed to assist her and almost immediately struck another mine. Some 15 minutes later, there was another explosion amidships which caused "Esk" to break in two, and she quickly sank in position . "Ivanhoe" rescued some survivors, but 127 of the ship's company were killed.
Ise (river)
The old district of Isenhagen, now part of Gifhorn district, was partly named after the river and its local newspaper is the "Isenhagener Kreisblatt". In the vicinity, not far from the river, is the old Isenhagen Abbey. It was used as a monastery until the Protestant Reformation and has since become a Protestant convent.
In 1571 the Celle Duke, William the Younger, submitted a plan to float logs down the Ise, an activity known as timber rafting ("Flößerei"). Its purpose was to convey logs from the royal forests to the ducal "Residenz" town of Celle, where it was needed as fuel for heating Celle Castle and other royal buildings. On the Ise north of Gifhorn were several royal forests that could have been logged. For some reason the project was not carried out. In 1617 the rafting of logs to Celle was again proposed by the officials of Knesebeck and Gifhorn to the Duke of Celle, by this time Christian the Elder. Estimates at the time put the cost of transporting logs by horse and cart at about 10 times that of rafting them down the river. These plans foundered on the rocks of the Thirty Years War which started in 1618. As a result, timber rafting down the Ise was not introduced until the reign of Duke Christian Louis. For this he called for a senior forester from Harzburg and a mine surveyor from Clausthal to advise him. In the Harz mountains they had a lot of experience with timber rafting because logs were needed for the ironworks there. Based on the recommendations of the advisors, in 1659 the river was cleared of rubbish, bushes and mud by several hundred farmers conscripted for the purpose. Extensive earthworks were created in order to get rid of the many meanders and shorten the course of the river. The canal cuts in the Ise valley left artificial ox-bows. Wooden sluices with sluice channels were built at Wahrenholz and Gifhorn. The first test run was carried out in 1659 and timber rafting officially began on the Ise in 1661 when 4,400 stères of wood fuel was transported to Gifhorn and from there down the Aller to Celle.
Japanese battleship Ise
On 25 February 1944, Battleship Division 2 was assigned to the direct control of the Combined Fleet. "Ise" and her sister ship were transferred to the Third Fleet and assigned to the newly reformed Fourth Carrier Division on 1 May, commanded by Rear Admiral Chiaki Matsuda. That same day the 634th Naval Air Group was formed and assigned to the Fourth Carrier Division. On 24 May, a pair of Type 22 surface-search radars were installed aboard the ship. From 31 May to 7 June, "Ise"s light anti-aircraft armament was reinforced with 47 additional Type 96 AA guns in 12 triple and 11 single mounts, which brought her total to 104 guns. In addition two Type 2 IFF units were installed.
Ise-class battleship
The were a pair of dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War I. Both ships carried supplies for the survivors of the Great Kantō earthquake in 1923. They were modernized in 1934–1937 with improvements to their armour and machinery and a rebuilt superstructure in the pagoda mast style. Afterwards they played a minor role in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Japanese battleship Ise
On 6 February, the division sailed for Singapore to participate in Operation Kita. While approaching Singapore, "Ise" was slightly damaged by a mine. Given temporary repairs at the former British naval base there, "Ise", "Hyūga", and the light cruiser were loaded with critically needed strategic war supplies (oil, rubber, tin, zinc, and mercury) and 1,150 surplus oil workers to be ferried back to Japan.
Swedish East India Company
The actual name of the replica is "Götheborg III". It is a replica of the "Götheborg" that sank outside Gothenburg in 1745. A second ship with the same name was built in Gothenburg in 1786. It was the second largest, (the largest being the "Drottningen"), of all the SOIC vessels and made three journeys to Canton: 2February 1788 – 13May 1790, 13November 1791 – 12June 1793, and on 5December 1795, the ship sailed for Canton but was lost at Cape Town on 8March 1796, on the way out from Gothenburg.
German torpedo boat Iltis
Iltis was the lead ship of her class of six torpedo boats built for the German Navy (initially called the "Reichsmarine" and then renamed as the "Kriegsmarine" in 1935) during the 1920s. The boat made multiple non-intervention patrols during the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s. During World War II, she did not participate in the Norwegian Campaign of 1940 as she was under repair after having accidentally rammed and sunk a U-boat. "Iltis" spent the next couple of years escorting minelayers as they laid minefields and laying minefields herself. She also spent the latter half of 1941 escorting convoys through the Skaggerak. The boat returned to France in 1942 and was one of the escorts for the capital ships sailing from France to Germany through the English Channel in the Channel Dash. "Iltis" then helped to escort one commerce raider through the Channel and was sunk by British forces while escorting another blockade runner in May.
Erie L. Hackley
At 5:45 pm on 3 October 1903, the "Erie L. Hackley" departed Menominee, Michigan, bound for Egg Harbor, Wisconsin. Fifteen minutes after departing, the Erie L. Hackley was just north of Green Island when a sudden storm blew up. The ship began to list and take on water. A giant wave smashed into the ship, carrying away the cabin; the ship then began to sink rapidly. The male passengers and crew placed the female passengers on floating wreckage before grabbing on to wreckage themselves. Captain Vorous stayed in the pilot house, trying to right the ship until he went down with it.
USS Isaac N. Seymour
She was raised, repaired, and returned to service in May. She resumed her former duty and continued to give a good account of herself in the sounds until 24 August when she struck a bank and sank in the Neuse River some 3 miles above New Bern, North Carolina, while steaming upstream to cover a landing of troops. A month later she was reported raised and on the ways being readied for service.
Battle of Rhodes (1943)
On 19 September 1943, between 1,584 and 1,835 Italian prisoners, all Navy and Air Force personnel, were herded onto the captured Italian motorship "Donizetti", which then sailed for mainland Greece. During the voyage the ship was intercepted and sunk by HMS "Eclipse", unaware of her human cargo, with no survivors. On 12 February 1944 the old steamer "Oria", crammed with over 4,000 prisoners from Rhodes, ran aground during a storm and sank off Cape Sounion; only 21 prisoners were rescued, while at least 4,062 were lost in the sinking.
Rivers-class ocean liner
The "Eider" went aground off the Isle of Wight on 31 January 1892, was salvaged in March but was then auctioned off to be broken up the following year. On 30 January 1895, the "Elbe" collided with the English collier "Crathie" in the Baltic and sank with the loss of 336 lives. Only twenty people in one lifeboat survived. In 1889 the "Fulda" rescued all 824 people aboard the Cunard liner SS "Oregon". She was to have been sold to the Canadian Beaver Line owned by Elder Dempster but was damaged in dock in 1898 or 1899 and sold to be broken up. On 30 June 1900 the "Saale" burnt out in the fire at the NDL piers in Hoboken, New Jersey, with the loss of 109 people including the captain. She was sold to the Luckenbach Steamship Company of New York and rebuilt as a freighter, renamed "J. L. Luckenbach", and ultimately broken up in 1924 as SS "Madison".
Otto Ites
Otto Ites, born on 5 February 1918 in Norden in the Province of Hanover of the Free State of Prussia, joined the military service of the "Kriegsmarine" on 3 April 1936. He commanded and , sinking fifteen ships on seven patrols, for a total of of Allied shipping. In September 1941 the "Pegasus" was torpedoed and all the crew managed to scramble into 2 lifeboats. One of the lifeboats was rescued but the other was found empty and upside down. The Captain reported that the "Pegasus" was torpedoed twice, the first one caused quite a lot of damage and the crew left the ship, but then she was torpedoed again and she sank. On 28 August 1942 "U-94" was sunk by depth charges in the Caribbean Sea, in position from a Catalina of VP-92 and by the Canadian corvette . Ites and 25 of his crew were taken prisoner of war. Ites remained in US captivity at Camp Crossville, Tennessee, until 1 May 1946.
Japanese battleship Ise
The "Ise"-class ships' waterline protective belt had a maximum thickness of of Vickers cemented armour amidships; below it was a strake of armour. The upper armoured deck consisted of two layers of high-tensile steel totaling thick and the lower armoured deck also consisted of two layers of high-tensile steel, but only a total of thick. The turrets were protected with an armour thickness of on the face and 76 mm on the roof. The casemate armour was thick and that of the barbettes was 299 mm thick rather than the originally planned 305 mm.
Ise-class battleship
"Ise" was attacked by 80-odd aircraft from the fourth wave, but they failed to inflict any serious damage. She dodged 11 torpedoes and was only hit by a bomb once, on the bulge outboard of the port catapult. Some 34 other bombs near missed her, spraying her with splinters and ruptured some hull plates that contaminated some fuel oil and caused leaks in her port boiler rooms. While an exact total of her casualties is not available, it has been estimated that 5 men were killed and some 111–121 crewmen were wounded during this attack. "Hyūga" was unsuccessfully attacked by an American submarine at 18:43. Around 19:00 Ozawa learned about a force of destroyers and cruisers that drove off the Japanese destroyers rescuing survivors from some of the carriers lost earlier in the day and sank "Chiyoda". He ordered the Fourth Carrier Division to reverse course and engage the Americans, but the battleships were unable to find them, and Ozawa ordered them to reverse course and head for Amami Ōshima. When they arrived on 27 October, Ozawa transferred to "Hyūga" and hoisted his flag aboard her. While en route for Kure, the division was unsuccessfully attacked by another submarine.
Japanese battleship Ise
The "Ise"-class ships had two sets of direct-drive steam turbines, each of which drove two propeller shafts, using steam provided by 24 Kampon Ro Gō water-tube boilers. The turbines were designed to produce a total of and give the ships a speed of . "Ise" reached from during her sea trials. Each of the boilers consumed a mixture of coal and oil and the ships carried enough of both to give them a range of at a speed of .
Sechelt (steamboat)
Less than three weeks later, on April 10, 1911, the steamer "Iroquois" sunk in similar circumstances in the Strait of Georgia. In that case, the ship's cargo, having been poorly stowed, shifted when the vessel encountered a squall. This time there were survivors, including the captain, who was convicted of manslaughter. The same tug, "William Joliffe", that went out to "Sechelt" also went to the wreck of the "Iroquois." The much larger steamer "Clallam" was lost in January 1904 in waters near the site of the sinking of "Sechelt" in somewhat similar weather conditions, and its loss was mentioned in the proceedings investigating the "Sechelt" disaster. In 1906 "Dix", a similar vessel to "Sechelt", capsized and sank quickly following a collision in Elliott Bay, and although there were survivors, like "Sechelt" no lifeboats could be launched and many people were trapped inside and dragged down with the vessel.
Japanese battleship Ise
The 4th Carrier Division was disbanded on 1 March and "Ise" was reduced to first-class reserve. From this time until the surrender of Japan, "Ise" remained docked at Kure, without fuel or aircraft, and repainted in an olive green camouflage with vari-coloured splotches. The camouflage was not effective against American carrier-based aircraft from Task Force 58 (TF 58) on 19 March, when more than 240 aircraft attacked Kure and "Ise" was hit by two bombs. Re-designated as a fourth-class reserve ship on 20 April, "Ise" was towed to the island of Ondo Seto (between Kure and Kurahashijima) to serve as a floating anti-aircraft battery. She was attacked again on 24 July by 60 carrier-based aircraft, whose bombs hit the starboard bow, flight deck, main deck, No. 3 turret and bridge, killing Mutaguchi, other bridge personnel, and around 50 crewmen; many other crewmen were wounded. The ship settled by the bow and it took three days to pump her dry and the IJN planned to drydock "Ise" for repairs. On 28 July she was struck by five bombs dropped by F4U Corsair fighters from , and eleven more bombs dropped by other aircraft from TF 58. Later that day an attack by 18 USAAF Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bombers was unsuccessful. "Ise" took on a 15° list to starboard and sank in shallow water. Salvage efforts were abandoned that same day, although some AA guns were stripped from her wreck. The ship was struck from the Navy list on 20 November. The underwater portion of "Ise"s wreck was ignored until the following year and she was scrapped in place by the Kure Dockyard of the Harima Zōsen Corporation from 9 October 1946 to 4 July 1947.
Russian submarine Krab (1912)
This submarine fought during World War I in the Black Sea Fleet. She laid several minefields which accounted for the sinking of the Turkish gunboat "Isa Reis" and the Bulgarian torpedo boat "Shumni" as well as several merchant ships. After the Russian Revolution of 1917 the boat was captured by the Germans and transferred to the British intervention force who scuttled the boat near Sevastopol to prevent capture by the Bolsheviks. The wreck was raised in 1935 and scrapped.
Irene incident
The "Irene" was then burning well so additional vessels were sent for. Most of the "Irenes" 258 passengers were saved though fourteen were never seen again. All the survivors were taken on board the submarines and later transferred to the Admiralty S Class destroyer HMS "Stormcloud", the cruiser and the minesweeper HMS "Magnolia", which also assisted in putting out the fire on the ship. The British put out the fire but because they had sprayed so much water into the vessel she eventually capsized and sank the following day. Several men received decorations for their conduct in rescuing survivors, including Lieutenant Halahan who received the Distinguished Service Cross. The Hong Kong police managed to filter out several of the pirates who tried to blend in with their hostages during the rescue and seven more were taken by the "L5". Jones said that they found the pirates naked in a lifeboat and crying so they were assumed to be civilians and taken aboard in blankets. It was a few days later when the crew of "L5" were informed that the seven men they picked up were responsible for the hijacking.
HMS Erin's Isle
She was then was requisitioned for the Royal Navy and became the minesweeper HMS "Erin's Isle". On 7 February 1919 she was sunk by a mine off Nore. with the loss of 23 lives.
SS Isaac M. Scott (1909)
SS "Isaac M. Scott" was an American Great Lakes Freighter that sunk during the Great Lakes Storm of 1913 in Lake Huron, 6 to 7 miles northeast of Thunder Bay Island (), while she was traveling from Cleveland, Ohio, United States to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States with a cargo of Coal.
Iris (1811 ship)
Iris was launched at Shields in 1811. She first sailed as a London-based transport. In 1819 she was wrecked on a voyage to India.
SS Ismore
On leaving the port the ship encountered rough seas and high wind and had to put into Moelfre Bay to wait out the weather, where she remained until the evening of November 8. She only was able to proceed as far as Milford Haven as the rough weather persisted and the horses became sick. Finally, the weather improved and "Ismore" departed Milford on November 11. The steamer coaled at Tenerife on November 16, and from there continued directly to Cape Town. The journey was largely uneventful. On December 2 at around noon, the ship's position was determined by observation to be approximately , and the course was set to pass the Dassen Island Lighthouse about 13 miles distant. At around 02:38 on December 3, "Ismore" struck on submerged rocks just off Columbine Point and got stranded. She immediately started to take on water filling her engine room and extinguishing the fires. The lifeboats were lowered and the ship was abandoned. The area where the ship went ashore was littered with rocks and it took a considerable effort to reach land, but, fortunately, the wrecked steamer was only about from the shore, and the military men were able to go back to the ship during the day to retrieve some clothing, ammunition and weapons as well as release some horses. Around 02:30 on December 4 "Ismore" broke amidships with only her stern remaining afloat. Only about twenty horses managed to get ashore with the rest going down with the ship.
Seawise Giant
"Seawise Giant" was damaged and sunk during the 1980-1988 Iran–Iraq War by an Iraqi Air Force attack while anchored off Larak Island, Iran, on 14 May 1988 and carrying Iranian crude oil. The ship was struck by parachute bombs. Fires ignited aboard the ship and blazed out of control, and it sank in the shallow waters off the coast. It was declared a total loss and was written off.
List of US Navy ships sunk or damaged in action during World War II
USS "Bismarck Sea" (CVE-95) sunk by "kamikaze" aircraft off Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, 21 February 1945.
SS Elbe (1881)
The night of 30 January 1895 was stormy. In the North Sea, conditions were freezing and there were huge seas. SS "Elbe" had left Bremerhaven for New York earlier in the day with 354 passengers aboard. Also at sea on this rough night was the steamship "Crathie", sailing from Aberdeen in Scotland, heading for Rotterdam. As conditions grew worse, the "Elbe" discharged warning rockets to alert other ships to her presence. The "Crathie" either did not see the warning rockets or chose to ignore them. She did not alter her course, with such disastrous consequences, that she struck the liner on her port side with such force that whole compartments of the "Elbe" were immediately flooded. The collision happened at 5.30 am and most of the passengers were still asleep.The "Elbe" began to sink immediately and the captain, von Goessel, gave the order to abandon ship. Amid great scenes of panic the crew managed to lower two of the "Elbe"'s lifeboats. One of the lifeboats capsized as too many passengers tried in vain to squeeze into the boat. Twenty people scrambled into the second lifeboat, of whom 15 were members of the crew. The others were four male second-class passengers and a young lady’s maid by the name of Anna Boecker, who had been lucky enough to be pulled from the raging sea after the first boat had capsized. Meanwhile, on the other side of the "Elbe", Captain von Goessel had ordered all the women and children to assemble there but no other lifeboats were launched because the ropes on the derricks were all frozen up, and so they perished along with the captain. Within 20 minutes of the collision, the "Elbe" had sunk and the only survivors were the 20 people in the one surviving lifeboat. These people now had to endure mountainous seas and below-zero temperatures and they were 50 miles from land. Things looked bleak; the "Elbe"'s distress rockets had not been seen by any passing vessels and so no one knew of their predicament. After five hours in the raging storm, their luck changed. A fishing smack from Lowestoft called the "Wildflower" found them. In desperate conditions the crew of the "Wildflower" struggled to pull the 20 survivors from the lifeboat, which had begun to break up. The skipper, William Wright, said later that the survivors would not have lasted another hour in those conditions, and believed that the only reason they had stayed alive for five hours was the expertise of the "Elbe"'s crewmen aboard the lifeboat.
List of Empire ships (Si–Sy)
"Empire Success" was a cargo ship which was built by Vulkan Werke, Hamburg. Completed in 1921 as "Hagen "for Hamburg America Line. Seized on 8 September 1939 at Durban by the South African Navy. To the South African Government and renamed "Ixia". Bombed on 30 September 1940 at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire and damaged. To MoWT, repaired and renamed "Empire Success". Laid up in January 1948 at Liverpool after a collision. Uneconomic to repair and scuttled on 22 August 1948 in the Bay of Biscay with a cargo of obsolete chemical ammunition.
Ise-class battleship
Upon commissioning, the sister ships were assigned to the 1st Battleship Division of the 1st Fleet. "Hyūga" had an explosion in one of her main gun turrets that killed 11 men and injured 25 in 1919; the following year she accidentally collided with and sank a schooner, losing two crewmen. Before the start of the Pacific War, both ships frequently exercised off the coasts of the Soviet Union, Korea and China in addition to training in Japanese waters. "Ise" hosted Edward, Prince of Wales, and his aide-de-camp Lieutenant Louis Mountbatten in 1922 during the prince's visit to Japan. In Korea Bay when the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake struck, they sailed to Kyushu where they loaded supplies from for the victims on 4 September. Together with two other battleships and a pair of light cruisers, "Ise" sank the destroyer in 1926 during gunnery practice. "Ise"s AA armament was upgraded in 1931 and "Hyūga"s two years later. The latter ship was modernized in 1934–36 and "Ise" in 1935–37, both at Kure Naval Arsenal. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, the sisters frequently patrolled the Chinese coast in support of the blockade imposed by Japan. In August 1937 "Hyūga" ferried two battalions of Special Naval Landing Forces to Port Arthur. Three years later, she served as the flagship for the Emperor of the puppet state of Manchukuo, Henry Pu-yi, during his state visit to Japan in June 1940. On 15 November the ships were transferred to the 2nd Battleship Division of the 1st Fleet. The sisters were refitted in late 1940 in preparation for war, which included the fitting of external degaussing coils and additional AA directors.
Ist (island)
In World War II, the Battle of Ist was a naval engagement off Ist on 29 February 1944. The engagement was fought between Free French navy destroyers and a "Kriegsmarine" force of two corvettes, two torpedo boats and three minesweepers which were protecting a freighter. The French managed to destroy the German freighter and a corvette without losses of their own before withdrawing.
Sunshine (2007 film)
"Icarus II" docks with "Icarus I". Capa, Searle, Mace, and former communications officer now-Captain Harvey search the vessel, leaving Cassie and botanist Corazon on board "Icarus II". They discover "Icarus I"s mainframe has been sabotaged, making its bomb delivery impossible. In the ship's log is a rambling message from Captain Pinbacker, who abandoned his mission. The crew of "Icarus I" is found charred to death in the solar observation room, where they were long ago exposed to the unshielded sun. Suddenly, the two ships explosively decouple, destroying "Icarus I"s outer airlock, stranding the four crew members on it. Mace suggests one crew member stay behind to manually operate the airlock while the other three jettison between airlocks, using the vacuum release for propulsion. Searle volunteers to stay behind. Capa is sealed in the only space suit, while Harvey and Mace wrap themselves in salvaged insulation material. Searle releases the airlock and the three crew members rocket into space. Harvey misses the airlock and freezes to death, while Capa and Mace make it back to "Icarus II". Searle, having spent the mission obsessed with looking into the shielded sun, voluntarily exposes himself to its full, deadly force in the observation room.
HMS Eclipse (H08)
HMS "Eclipse" was an E-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that saw service in the Atlantic, Arctic, and Mediterranean theatres during World War II, until sunk by a mine in the Aegean Sea on 24 October 1943.
Isaac Allerton (shipwreck)
Isaac Allerton was a 594-ton American merchant ship that sank in a hurricane east-southeast of Key West in the Florida Keys near the Saddlebunch Keys on August 28, 1856.
Operation Kita
After reaching Japan, "Ise" and "Hyūga" were assigned to bolster the anti-aircraft defenses of the city of Kure and its naval base. Due to shortages of fuel and aircraft, the ships did not put to sea again, and both were sunk during the U.S. Navy's attacks on Kure between 24 and 28 July 1945. "Ōyodo" became part of the Kure Training Force and remained in port until she was sunk on 28 July. The three destroyers also failed to survive the war; "Asashimo" and "Kasumi" fell victim to American carrier aircraft while escorting the battleship during Operation "Ten-Go" on 6 April, and "Hatsushimo" sank after striking a mine near Maizuru on 30 July.
Ise (river)
The Ise used to be maintained by the "Iseverband" Wasser Association in Wahrenholz but has been superseded by the "Aller-Ohre-Verband" in Gifhorn. There is no shipping on the river but it is well suited to canoe tours (boats may be hired near Gifhorn). In recent decades the Ise and its surrounding landscape has been discovered to be a valuable natural habitat, so that its use for nature conservation has become a top priority. In general, the river crosses wide, flat meadow country, far from habitation, in a sparsely-populated region. Shortly before its mouth in Gifhorn, near the river banks, are the Gifhorn Mill Museum and Gifhorn Castle. Several hundred metres downstream is another mill, the "Cardenapsmühle". This has been a watermill at least since the 27 January 1213 (when it was mentioned in a deed of donation by Otto IV) and, until its closure in 2004, was one of the oldest working mills in Europe.
Iris (1811 ship)
On 7 February 1819, "Iris", Jones, master, wrecked on Canda Island, on her way from London to Bombay. (Canda, or Candy, or Candu Island does not exist. Contemporary accounts believed that the island was east of the Chagos Archipelago.) "Lloyd's List" reported on 13 August 1819 that "Iris" had wrecked on "Solomon or Canda Island"; this would suggest that "Solomon Island" was the Salomon Islands, a small atoll in the Chagos Archipelago. "Lloyd's List" further reported that had rescued Jones and some of the crew but that the rest of "Iris"s crew had remained on the island, and it was expected that most of the cargo would be saved. "Prince Blucher" had taken with her 40,000 dollars that "Iris" had been carrying. The "Asiatic Journal..." has an account of the wrecking and a subsequent dispute between Captain Lewis Jones and Captain Lagour, master of a French schooner, respecting compensation for passage for Jones and some of his crew to India. The account makes no mention of "Prince Blucher".
Atlantic (1848)
Atlantic was a steamboat that sank on Lake Erie after a collision with the steamer "Ogdensburg" on 20 August 1852, with the loss of at least 150 but perhaps as many as 300 lives. The loss of life made this disaster, in terms of loss of life from the sinking of a single vessel, the fifth-worst tragedy in the history of the Great Lakes.
Japanese battleship Ise
During the ships' modernisation during the 1930s, their forward superstructure was enlarged with multiple platforms added to their tripod masts to create a pagoda mast. Both ships were also given torpedo bulges to improve their underwater protection and to compensate for the weight of the additional armour. These changes increased their overall length to , their beam to and their draft to . Their displacement increased over to at deep load. The crew now numbered 1,376 officers and enlisted men.
Isabel Clark (nurse)
Isabel Clark (1885 – 23 October 1915) was a New Zealand nurse who served in World War I and died when the SS "Marquette" was torpedoed and sunk in 1915.
HMS Isis (D87)
"Isis" struck a mine and sank on 20 July 1944 at the position in channel 'T' off the western sector of the Normandy landing beaches. She was the last interwar standard destroyer lost in the war, with eleven officers and 143 ratings lost.
PS Ireland
PS "Ireland" was a paddle-wheel steamship of the White Star Line, built in 1891. Together, with her sister ship , she tendered the various White Star Liners which came through the port of Queenstown, Ireland (now Cobh). Like her sister ship, "Ireland" is best known for her assistance of the , the ill-fated ocean liner who made her final port of call at Queenstown on her maiden voyage. "Ireland" brought Irish immigrants to the "Titanic", followed by "America", who brought 123 passengers. The "Titanic" sank on April 15, 1912, with three-fourths of her maiden voyage completed.
Ise-class battleship
They returned home on 14 June and the IJN began preliminary planning to replace the lost carriers with hybrid carriers converted from battleships. The sisters were selected for conversion and detached from the division on 14 July in preparation. They remained on "standby alert" until the actual conversions began. "Ise" was converted at Kure Naval Arsenal from 23 February to 5 September 1943 and "Hyūga" at Sasebo Naval Arsenal from 2 May to 30 November.
Ise-class battleship
The first battleships built for the renewed Eight-Eight Fleet Program were the two dreadnoughts of the , ordered in 1907 and laid down in 1908. In 1910, the Navy put forward a request to the Diet (parliament) to secure funding for the entirety of the program at once. Because of economic constraints, only four battlecruisers and a single battleship of the "Fusō" class were ultimately approved by the Diet. Three more "Fusō"-class ships (, , and ) were approved and all three were ordered in April 1913. While "Yamashiro" was laid down later that year, the IJN lacked the funding to proceed with the construction of "Ise" and "Hyūga" until the Diet authorized additional funding for the ships in July 1914.
Ottoman frigate Ertuğrul
Despite all their efforts, the ship's disintegration was imminent and the only option was to seek sanctuary in a nearby port. They headed to Kobe, within of the ship, in the gulf beyond the Kashinozaki Cape with Oshima Lighthouse. Seawater breaking through finally extinguished one of the furnaces in the engine room. Almost immobile without main sails and sufficient propulsion, and having only the wind and the waves behind, "Ertuğrul" drifted towards the dangerous rocks at the eastern coast of Kii Ōshima. As the crew tried just to stop the ship before the rocks by emergency anchoring, the ship hit the reefs and fell apart at the first impact around midnight on 18 September 1890.
At the site of the incident, around 533 sailors, of whom fifty were officers including the commander Rear Admiral Ali Osman Pasha, lost their lives. Only six officers and sixty-three sailors survived. Six of the survivors were uninjured, nine severely wounded and the others sustained light injuries. After the rescue operation, two survivors were taken to Kobe by Japanese ships, two more by a Japanese battleship and sixty-five by German gunboats. All of the sixty-nine survivors were transported back to Constantinople aboard the Japanese corvettes and , leaving Shinagawa, Tokyo, in October 1890. The Sultan met with the officers of the Japanese ships on 5 January 1891 and expressed his appreciation for the relief operation by decorating them with medals.
Battle of Yeosu
On December 17, 1998, a ten-ton North Korean "I-SILC"-class semi-submersible infiltration vessel was observed by a South Korean guard post about 2 km off the coast of Yeosu and ROK Navy ships were scrambled to intercept it. After several warnings were given, the ROK Navy fired warning shots at the semi-submersible. The North Korean craft ignored the warnings and opened fire on the South Korean vessels. It then attempted to escape, fleeing southwest while being tracked by patrol planes and boats, but several hours later it had sunk in of water approximately 100 km south of Geoje Island.
Italian submarine Iride
"Iride" secretly participated in the Spanish Civil War, being a part of two incidents that strained Italo-British relations. She carried out a mission from 24 August – 5 September 1937 under command of Junio Valerio Borghese. On August 26, "Iride" arrived at her designated area between Ibiza and Cape San Antonio. During the patrol she attempted attacks 8 times, but only fired on two of those. In the evening of August 29, she sighted a cargo ship heading towards Valencia, and attacked it twice, second time from 600 meters, and both were unsuccessful. At 20:45 on August 30, 1937, while traveling on the surface, she sighted British destroyer steaming from Valencia to Gibraltar, and mistaking it for a Spanish naval ship of the , launched a 450mm torpedo from 700 meters at 20:52. managed to avoid the torpedo with a sharp turn to the starboard, and then went on to search for the submarine using her sonar. However, the sonar showed a different position than where the submarine was sighted, and proceeded to launch depth charges on the sonar location. British destroyers , and , and a cruiser joined in, and continued the attack for nine hours. "Iride" hiding at a great depth managed to survive and did not sustain any serious damage.
Edouard Izac
By the ship's fifth voyage, Izac was its executive officer. During this voyage, the ship successfully ferried troops to Brest, France on 23 May 1918 and began the return trip to New York City on 29 May. The next day, the destroyer escort for the convoy departed leaving four troopships to cross the sea alone. Izac was in command of the guns on the afterdeck. A submarine was spotted early in the morning on 31 May and the ships attempted to evade it unsuccessfully. "President Lincoln" was with a convoy of ships from the coast of France when it was struck by three torpedoes at a range of about at 08:54 by German submarine "U–90". By 09:15, her captain, Commnder P.W. Foote ordered the ship abandoned. "Abraham Lincoln" rolled starboard at 09:30 and sank, but only took 26 men in a crew of 700 with her. The rest remained in lifeboats as the rest of the convoy headed to a safe distance, as was policy at the time. "U-90" then surfaced, attempting to locate the ship's captain, but was unable to do so, pulling Izac out of a lifeboat instead because its crew recognized his offers' insignia. Izac was taken as prisoner of war after lying to the sub's crew that the captain had gone down with the ship. He was subsequently held in quarters aboard the ship while it dived to avoid depth charges from the pursuing .
Izac later recalled that he was treated well while a prisoner, dining with the ship's officers and playing bridge and other card games with the crew. During political discussions on the boat, he also learned about the German mindset and conditions for German U-Boat crews, which were generally superior to conditions in other ships at the time. During this time, he began to take mental notes of the sub and the routines and operations of her crew, hoping to gather intelligence that could be useful against German submarine efforts. He concealed his knowledge of German language which he used to listen in on the crew. Using maps and binoculars borrowed from the crew, Izac was able to ascertain the ship's return route to Kiel, which took it north of the Shetland Islands, into the North Sea and past Skagerrack and Kattegat in a bid to avoid minefields and patrols. He also learned of a rendezvous point used by U-boats near Denmark to avoid patrols, though was thwarted in his first escape attempt here. He also learned of at least one island where sub crews were commonly landing to poach mutton, which he considered ideal for a trap. Arriving in Kiel on 10 June, he was transferred to the , on which he was ferried to a prison camp in Karlsruhe. Conditions there were more difficult and the prisoners were fed less, so and he tried unsuccessfully to escape again.
List of shipwrecks of Isle Royale
"STEAMER IS SUNK WHEN IT STRIKES ISLE ROYALE REEF" 
"All aboard are Rescued; Few Details of Accident are Given. Duluth, Minn. June 7 (AP) An old passenger steamer, the AMERICA, is lying on the bottom of Lake Superior tonight under 17 fathoms [31 m], of water. Its crew and passengers, about 45 in all, were taken off Isle Royale tonight, where they went when the ship sank this morning."   --"Houghton Mining Gazette" (June 8, 1928)
Wadham College Boat Club
By 1897 Wadham College had emulated the example of the rest of the colleges and invested in a permanent Wadham Barge to serve as a rowing base on the Isis. 
This barge, moored on the most downstream part of Boathouse Island where Christ Church Boathouse is now located, was sold in 1973 when repairs became prohibitively expensive, and it later burned to the waterline and sank in 1983. A new boathouse was built in 1989, and is now shared with St. Anne's and St. Hugh's colleges.
HMS Isis (1774)
She was built in 1774 on the River Medway and commissioned under Captain Charles Douglas in 1776, at which time he sailed with a squadron for the relief of Quebec. She was involved in the Nore mutiny and fought at the Battle of Cuddalore (1783) and Battle of Camperdown (1797). The ship was also engaged at the Action of 22 August 1795 off Norway against a Dutch squadron. She then served as the flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir Andrew Mitchell during the 1799 Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland. One of her early midshipmen was Robert Faulknor the younger. She fought in the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801 under Captain James Walker and was badly damaged by a hurricane during the Peace of Amiens on crossing the Atlantic to be Vice Admiral Gambier's flagship in Newfoundland, before going on to further service in Newfoundland, the Caribbean and the North Sea. She was broken up in September 1810.
RMS Empress of Ireland
RMS "Empress of Ireland" was an ocean liner that sank near the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River following a collision in thick fog with the Norwegian collier in the early hours of 29 May 1914. Although the ship was equipped with watertight compartments, and in the aftermath of the "Titanic" disaster two years earlier, carried more than enough lifeboats for all onboard, she foundered in only 14 minutes. Of the 1,477 people on board, 1,012 died, making it the worst peacetime maritime disaster in Canadian history.
MV Sea Isle City
"Sea Isle City" was struck during the Tanker War phase of the Iran–Iraq War by an Iranian Silkworm missile launched from the Iranian occupied Al-Faw Peninsula at 05:30 A.M. on October 16, 1987. The missile struck the wheel house and crew quarters of the ship. The ship was not carrying oil at the time it was struck and was moving to be loaded. The ship's master, a US citizen, was blinded and a total of 18 crew members were wounded. "Sea Isle City" was in Kuwaiti waters and was no longer under the protection of US escort ships. "Sea Isle City" was heavily damaged by the missile and it took 4 months to repair the damage to the bridge and crew area. 
The US later undertook Operation Nimble Archer in response to the attack, destroying two oil platforms in the Rostam oil field that were not in production and being used as tactical communication relay points, radar tracking stations and as bases of operations for helicopter and speed boat attacks on maritime shipping in international waters. According to documents seized during the raid on the platform, the Rostam platform's radar had tracked the convoy containing "Sea Isle City" while it was en route to Kuwait and relayed this tactical information via communications gear on the platform.
Hurricane Iris
A scuba diving boat overturned during the hurricane near Big Creek, Belize, possibly hit by a tornado. The boat, named the "Wave Dancer", had 28 people on board, including 20 from the Richmond Dive Club out of Richmond, Virginia; most of them were upstairs in the boat, and none were diving. The captain had delayed returning to shore, and the passengers waited for the storm to pass along a dock, not anticipating the ferocity. Iris cut the ropes connecting the boat to the dock, causing it to overturn in waters. Eight people survived, and 11 bodies were recovered; it was presumed that 20 people died during the wreck, including 15 from the Richmond area and three crew members.
Ise-class battleship
Despite the expensive reconstructions, both vessels were considered obsolete by the eve of the Pacific War, and neither saw significant action in the early years of the war. Following the loss of most of the IJN's large aircraft carriers during the Battle of Midway in mid-1942, they were rebuilt with a flight deck replacing the rear pair of gun turrets to give them the ability to operate an air group of floatplanes. A lack of aircraft and qualified pilots, however, meant that they never actually operated their aircraft in combat. While awaiting their air group, the sister ships were occasionally used to ferry troops and material to Japanese bases. They participated in the Battle of Cape Engaño in late 1944, where they decoyed the American carrier fleet supporting the invasion of Leyte away from the landing beaches. Afterwards both ships were transferred to Southeast Asia; in early 1945 they participated in Operation Kita, where they transported petrol and other strategic materials to Japan. The sisters were then reduced to reserve until they were sunk during American airstrikes in July. After the war they were scrapped in 1946–1947.
Japanese battleship Ise
"Ise", named after Ise Province, one of the traditional provinces of Japan, was laid down at the Kawasaki Heavy Industries shipyard in Kobe on 5 May 1915 and launched on 12 November 1916. Captain Akizawa Yoshima assumed command on 1 December and the ship was completed on 15 December 1917, too late for service in World War I. "Ise" was assigned to the 1st Division of the 1st Fleet in 1917–1918. Captain Kuwashima Shozo relieved Akizawa on 1 December 1918 and he was relieved in his turn by Captain Furukawa Hiroshi on 20 November 1919. On 29 August 1920, the ship began the first of numerous patrols off the Siberian coast and in northern waters in support of Japan's Siberian Intervention against the Bolshevik Red Army. Captain Yokoo Hisashi replaced Furukawa on 20 November and he was replaced by Captain Nagasawa Naotaro in his turn on 1 December 1921.
Liefde (East Indiaman)
Liefde was a Dutch Sailing ship that ran aground and sank during a storm in the North Sea off the Shetland Islands, Great Britain, while she was on her fourth homeward voyage from the East under the command of Captain Meikens Barend.
HMS Nancy (1808)
On 8 February 1813 the British ship "Isabella", of 193 tons and a crew of 14, was wrecked off the coast of Eagle Island (now known as Speedwell Island). Captain George Higton and five other men then made the hazardous voyage to the River Plate in one of the ship's longboats; they made landfall a month later. "Nancy" was sent to rescue the survivors.
USS McKean (DD-784)
A salvage ship, the submarine rescue ship , arrived out of Sasebo on 20 December, to join the five destroyers and three anti-submarine airplanes at the site of the sinking. A hard hat diver was lowered to the scene. In a very short time he returned to the surface with a pair of new binoculars. In addition the Russian submarines had deployed during the depth charge a decoy that made all the sounds of a submarine. This Black Box was so top secret the "Greenlet" immediately returned to Pearl Harbor with it. Rumor has it the "Greenlet" was not allowed to return to the war area because it had retrieved so many Russian secrets. Perhaps it got their code books? Rumor also has it that 43 days later all the B girls knew everything that happened, but the crew couldn't say anything because they had signed the letters of secrecy. The story the crew was told was that it was a "sunken Jap freighter the "Iona Maru". Supposedly the "Iona Maru" capsized on 10 December 1950. The Navy brass had already formatted their cover story with the skipper of the USS "Greenlet". "If those binoculars were from WWII, why wasn't there debris or barnacles, on the item". Recently a former shipmate commented, "We sunk a hulk ship that was doing five knots!".
Island City (schooner)
The Island City was a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan off the coasts of Mequon, Wisconsin and Port Washington, Wisconsin, United States. On November 10, 2011, the shipwreck site was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
List of US Navy ships sunk or damaged in action during World War II
"Iona" (YT-107) sunk by Japanese aircraft at Cavite, Luzon, Philippine Islands,
2 January 1942.
Kilkee
On 30 January 1836 the "Intrinsic", a ship from Liverpool bound for New Orleans, was blown into a bay near Bishops Island in Kilkee. The ship was dashed repeatedly against the cliffs and sank along with her crew of 14, of whom none survived. The shipwreck site is now called 'Intrinsic Bay'. A chartered passenger sailing vessel named the "Edmond" sank at Edmond Point on 19 November 1850. The ship was sailing from Limerick to New York City but was driven into Kilkee Bay by a storm. As the tide was very high, the ship was driven all the way to Edmond Point, where it split in two. Of the 216 on board, 98 drowned in the disaster. Exactly 50 years to the day after the "Intrinsic" sank, on 30 January 1886, the "Fulmar" sank just north of Kilkee in an area known as Farrihy Bay. The ship was a cargo vessel transporting coal from Troon in Scotland to Limerick, but never reached its destination. Of the 17 crew members aboard only one body was ever recovered.
SS Ouse (1884)
She was wrecked on 13 September 1947 near Varberg on a voyage from Landskrona to Middlesbrough.
International Mercantile Marine Co.
The early 1910s marked a turning point for the IMM. Indeed, on April 15, 1912, the "Titanic", flagship of its fleet, sank during her maiden voyage. Besides the financial and human losses, the sinking had repercussions on the organization of the trust. Through the American commission of inquiry devoted to the sinking, Senator William Alden Smith openly attacked the very principle of the company and Morgan. As had been arranged before Titanic sank, J. Bruce Ismay retired as president of IMM in 1913 and was succeeded by Harold Sanderson and Morgan died on March 31, 1913. After the 1915-16 receivership, Sanderson was succeeded as president by Franklin, who had been the receiver.
Irish Mercantile Marine during World War II
In the economic depression, the Limerick Steamship Company sold both its ocean-going ships, "Knockfierna" and "Kilcredane". They were Ireland's last ocean-going ships. At the outbreak of hostilities Ireland did not have a ship designed to cross the Atlantic. British ships were not available. American ships would only travel to Portugal. Ireland depended on other neutrals. In 1940 a succession of these ships, from Norway, Greece, Argentina, and Finland, usually carrying wheat to Ireland, were lost. Soon many of these nations were no longer neutral. Ireland had to acquire its own fleet. Irish Shipping was formed. "Irish Poplar" was Irish Shipping's first ship. It was acquired in Spain after it had been abandoned by its crew. Other ships were acquired from Palestine, Panama, Yugoslavia, and Chile. The Irish government minister Frank Aiken negotiated the bareboat chartering of two oil-burning steamships from the United States Maritime Commission's reserve fleet. They were both lost to U-boats. was sunk in controversial circumstances by . All 33 crew of were lost when she was sunk by "U-608". Three ships were from Estonia, They were in Irish ports when Estonia was annexed by the Soviet Union. Their crews refused to return to the new Estonian SSR. The ships were sold to Irish Shipping. The SS "Cetvrti" (Jugoslavia) was abandoned in Dingle Bay after being strafed on 1 December 1940. She was salvaged by "Fort Rannoch" of the Irish Navy; she was purchased and renamed "Irish Beech".
An Italian ship, "Caterina Gerolimich" had been trapped in Dublin since the outbreak of the war. After the fall of Italian Fascism she was chartered, repaired and renamed "Irish Cedar". When the war was over, she returned to Naples with a cargo of food, a gift from Ireland to war-ravaged Italy. was bought on 17 June 1941. She was 46 years old, and required extensive repairs. "She was fit for nothing but the scrap yard." A British yard bid for, and won, the contract to renovate her. This work was completed in November 1943. Even though the Irish government paid for her purchase and for the repairs she was requisitioned by the British Ministry of War Transport and renamed "Empire Don". She was returned to Irish Shipping in 1945.
SS Aeon (1905)
"Aeon" was wrecked on 18 July 1908 near Christmas Island (now Kiritimati), while on a voyage from San Francisco to Sydney.
Knut Moe
He operated an illegal radio post in Alta together with Torstein Raaby, Alfred Henningsen and Karl Rasmussen. The codename was "Ida", and it became a part of the network "Venus" of Northern Norway. They mainly reported on German troop and naval movements. Among their achievements was the 25 December 1943 report that the German battleship was heading into open waters. The ship was subsequently sunk in the Battle of North Cape. Rasmussen was later captured by Gestapo, whereas Moe and Raaby fled in May 1944 to England via Sweden and Finland. Imprisoned and tortured, Rasmussen committed suicide by auto-defenestration in June 1944.
SS Imo
"Imo" was repaired after the explosion and returned to service. Renamed "Guvernøren" ("The Governor") in 1920, she served as a whale oil tanker until 30 November 1921, when the man at the helm fell down drunk after celebratory drinking, leaving nobody at the wheel. The ship ran aground on rocks at Cow Bay two miles off Cape Carysfort approximately 20 miles from Port Stanley on East Falkland. No crew were lost. Salvage attempts were halted on 3 December and the ship was abandoned to the sea.
Ise-class battleship
The "Ise" class were the only Japanese battleships to place the powder magazine above the shell magazine as the IJN wished to put as much space as possible between the highly flammable propellant and mine and torpedo detonations. The danger from plunging shells at long distances was not appreciated until the fatal magazine explosions of three British battlecruisers during the 1916 Battle of Jutland graphically demonstrated the point. To further protect the magazines the depth of the double bottom was increased to a total of underneath the barbettes and magazines. Additionally, the vessels contained 660 watertight compartments to preserve buoyancy in the event of battle damage. In addition to the torpedo bulge added when the ships were modernized, the deck armour over the machinery and magazines was increased to a total thickness of 140 mm. Inside the original skin of the ships, two torpedo bulkheads were also added and the turret roofs were increased to a total of of armour.
SS Irma (1905)
The first official word to come out about the sinking of "Irma" and "Henry" in Norway was from the Norwegian national socialist party Nasjonal Samling's official publication "Fritt Folk" on 15 February 1944. The national socialist newspaper used the word "Skjendselsdåd" () in the headline. The next day, 16 February, "Fritt Folk" stated that British Motor Torpedo Boats had been responsible for the attack. Only after the end of the Second World War did it become known that the ships responsible belonged to the Royal Norwegian Navy, "MTB 627" sinking "Irma" and "MTB 653" sending "Henry" to the bottom. The two warships had been towed from Shetland to Hustadvika by the converted whaler HNoMS "Molde", departing Shetland on 11 February, and were on a mission to intercept German and German-controlled shipping.
SS Ilse L M Russ
In 1946, "Empire Conqueror" was transferred to the Norwegian Government and was renamed "Ekornes". Her port of registry was changed to Oslo and the Code Letter LLTS were allocated. In 1947, she was sold to Tetlies Rederi AS, Trondheim and renamed "Elfrida". She was operated under the management of Bjarne Tetlie. On 8 December 1959, "Elfrida" was on a voyage from Archangelsk, Soviet Union to a Danish port with a cargo of timber, when a leak developed in the engine room. The weather at the time was stormy. A distress call was issued when the ship was at . The ship was discovered capsized with the loss of all 20 crew. She sank on 9 December some off Stavanger.
SS Ilse L M Russ
Ilse L M Russ was a cargo ship that was built in 1926 by Flensberger Schiffbau Gesellschaft., Flensburg. She was seized by the Allies in May 1945 at Kiel, passed to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and renamed Empire Conqueror. In 1946, she was allocated to the Norwegian Government and renamed Ekornes. She was sold into merchant service in 1947 and renamed Elfrida. She served until December 1959 when she sprang a leak and sank off the coast of Norway.
Hanneke Vrome
When the ships had almost reached their destination, a strong gale rose which forced them to turn around and head back towards the Finnish coast. On the evening of 20 November the "Hanneke Vrome" capsized taking all of her passengers and crew with her. The sinking was witnessed by people on the smaller escort ship sailing by her side, but nothing could be done due to darkness and rough weather. According to eyewitnesses the ship sank in the blink of an eye. The escorting vessel later made it to Reval with the news of the sinking.
Ise Bay
On September 26, 1959, the Ise-wan Typhoon (Typhoon Vera) devastated the Ise Bay area. Rising tidal levels and pounding surf collapsed banks and inundated low-lying areas of the coast. 5,041 people were killed or missing, 38,921 were injured, and 149,187 houses were totally or partially destroyed. Estimates place the cost of the damage between 500 and 600 billion yen. The damage and loss of life caused by the Ise-wan Typhoon remains the worst recorded by a typhoon in Japan.
Ise Electric Railway
It can be said that the mixture of competition from Sankyū, which provided direct rail service to Ujiyamada from a major metropolitan area, and Iseden's inability to connect its own line with a major metropolitan area of similar size was the main cause of the company's downfall.The Iseden Main Line connected Kuwana, Mie to Ujiyamada, Mie (Ise, Mie). It followed the coastline through Mie Prefecture's primary cities and terminated near the Outer Shrine of Ise Grand Shrine. There were plans to extend the line from Kuwana to Nagoya however this was not implemented until after Iseden was dissolved. The ~ section of this line became part of the Kintetsu Nagoya Line. Of the remaining sections, the Shin-Matsusaka ~ Daijingū-mae section was closed in 1942 because it could not compete with the Sankyū Main Line, and the Edobashi ~ Shin-Matsusaka section was closed in 1961.
RMS Carpathia
On 9 September 1999, the Reuters and AP wire services reported that Argosy International Ltd., headed by Graham Jessop, son of the undersea explorer Keith Jessop, and sponsored by the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA), had discovered "Carpathia"s wreck in of water, west of Land's End. Bad weather forced his ship to abandon the position before Jessop could verify the discovery using underwater cameras. However, when he returned to the location, the wreck was the Hamburg-America Line's "Isis", sunk on 8 November 1936.
HMS Heartsease (K15)
"Heartsease" spent most of her early career escorting convoys through British waters. On 22 September 1940 she picked up 31 survivors from the Norwegian merchant which had been torpedoed and sunk by the German U-boat west of Ireland. On 15 October she rescued nine survivors from the British merchant which had been sunk by west-north-west of Rockall. She was then called to the assistance of the inbound Convoy SC 7, which had come under attack from a U-boat wolfpack and was sustaining heavy losses. On arrival "Heartsease" was assigned to escort the damaged into port. On 23 December she collided with the in the Irish Sea. Both ships were saved and towed into port. A subsequent enquiry placed the blame on the captain of "Heartsease".
MV Ice Prince
The MV "Ice Prince" was a 328-foot Greek-registered cargo ship which sank in the English channel on 15 January 2008, spilling 2,516 tonnes of timber, around 423 tonnes of intermediate fuel oil and 123 tonnes of marine diesel oil. Twenty crew members were rescued by HM Coastguard helicopter and Brixham lifeboat.
Isadore &quot;Ike&quot; Bayles
Ike traveled back to Alaska in 1914 and ended up at Ship Creek Landing, which would later become Anchorage. The Alaska Railroad had just been established and the area of Ship Creek Landing was designated at its headquarters. At this time, Ship Creek Landing was just a tent city. The population quickly grew to over 2,000 people & Ike saw more potential for business opportunities. Ike sold his two clothing stores in Iditarod & Discovery to a merchant from Flat City named Abe Wiess. Ike then opened a clothing store on the northwest corner 4th Avenue & D Street in Anchorage with his business partner Nathan Jaffe, who owned at least one other clothing store in Ruby, Alaska along the Yukon River. The store was called "Jaffe & Bayles Leading Clothier", and it was one of the first businesses in Anchorage. After many years, he eventually bought out his partner & renamed the store "I. Bayles Clothier." The building remained on 4th street until it was destroyed on March 27, 1964 during the Good Friday earthquake. Ike was also elected to the first City Assembly and the School Board of Anchorage during this time.
SS Île de France
Ironically, all of the ship's luxurious fittings were removed for conversion into a prison ship during World War II. After the war, "Île de France" resumed transatlantic operations. In 1956, she played a key role in rescuing passengers from the SS "Andrea Doria" after the latter ship's fatal collision with the MS "Stockholm" off Nantucket. Her last hurrah came just before she was scrapped in 1959, "starring" in the movie "The Last Voyage" as a doomed ocean liner, and actually being partially sunk, while scenes were being filmed with actors playing their parts in the flooded ship. She was subsequently refloated and taken to Japan to be scrapped. The movie was released in 1960.
Japanese submarine I-63
Built by the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, "I-63" was launched on 28 September 1927 and completed on 20 December 1928. On 2 February 1939, the boat was sunk when she was accidentally rammed by her sister ship in the Bungo Strait, off Kyushu, killing 81 aboard. Her captain and six crewmen were rescued. The wreck was salvaged in January 1940 and scrapped in Kure.
Soviet cruiser Admiral Isakov
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, "Admiral Isakov" was transferred to the Russian Navy. Due to reduced naval funding she was decommissioned on 30 June 1993, crew disbanding on 31 December; the naval jack was lowered for the last time on 14 January 1994. In mid-1994, the ship was sold to an Indian company for scrapping, but sank under tow en route.
HMS Isis (1896)
"Isis" deployed to the Mediterranean in 1898 for service in the Mediterranean Fleet. She participated between September and December 1898 in the operations at Crete of the International Squadron, a multinational force made up initially of ships of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, French Navy, Imperial German Navy, Italian Royal Navy ("Regia Marina"), Imperial Russian Navy, and Royal Navy that intervened between February 1897 and December 1898 in the 1897-1898 Greek Christian uprising against the Ottoman Empire′s rule on the island. By the time "Isis" joined the squadron, Austria-Hungary and the German Empire had withdrawn from the squadron, but the other four countries remained active in it. In the wake of a violent riot by Cretan Turks against British soldiers, sailors, and Christian civilians in Candia on 6 September 1898, "Isis" anchored in the harbor and men convicted of murdering British subjects during the riot were held aboard her while awaiting trial and execution. They were hanged in Candia during October and November 1898.
USS St. Lo
USS "St. Lo" (AVG/ACV/CVE–63) was a of the United States Navy during World War II. On 25 October 1944, "St. Lo" became the first major warship to sink as the result of a "kamikaze" attack. The attack occurred during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
Ise-class battleship
"Ise" was briefly fitted with an aircraft flying-off platform for a Mitsubishi 1MF3 fighter on Turret No. 2 in 1927. It was replaced by a platform on Turret No. 5 for a Yokosuka E1Y reconnaissance floatplane in 1928–1929. A catapult and a collapsible crane were fitted on the stern during the mid-1930s modernization, and the ships were equipped to operate three floatplanes, although no hangar was provided. The initial Nakajima E4N2 biplanes were replaced by Nakajima E8N2 biplanes in 1938.
SS Ohio (1875)
The SS "Ohio" was a wooden hulled Great Lakes freighter that served on the Great Lakes of North America from her construction in 1875, to her sinking in September 1894 when she collided with the schooner barge "Ironton" which also sank in the collision. The "Ironton" was being towed by the steamer "Charles J. Kershaw", which was also towing the schooner "Moonlight". The "Ohio" was found upright in 2017, over 122 years after her sinking in over 200 feet of water off Presque Isle, Michigan. "Ironton" is still missing. The researchers who discovered "Ohio" plan to nominate her for a listing in the National Register of Historic Places.
Iris (1866 ship)
Iris was a schooner launched at Port Huron, Michigan, in 1866. She spent 47 years sailing the Great Lakes; for most of this time she was based out of Detroit Harbor, Wisconsin. In 1913 she sank in Lake Michigan off the coast of Washington Island in Door County, Wisconsin, United States. Her crew abandoned her after she ran aground.
SS Irish Pine (1919)
"West Hematite" was built for the USMC. She was initially chartered to Cosmo Shipping Co and was used on the Bordeaux – Rotterdam – Le Havre – New York route. On 16 February 1923, she ran aground in the Weser. The American cargo ship went to her assistance and also ran aground. By 1933, she had passed to the United States Shipping Board (USSB). She was later withdrawn from service and placed in the reserve fleet.
On 26 September 1941, "West Hematite" was chartered from the USSB by Irish Shipping Ltd and renamed "Irish Pine". was also chartered from the USSB. On 4 August 1942, the Union-Castle Line's was torpedoed and sunk by off Cape Farewell. "Irish Pine" rescued 15 of the 50 survivors and landed them at Kilrush.
List of shipwrecks in the Bristol Channel
The Eiffel Tower was a ship that ran aground at Cold Knap Point in Barry in south Wales in 1894. Owned by the Dunedin Steamship Company of Leith, and skippered by a Captain Campbell, the Eiffel Tower ran aground in thick fog. She was refloated at high tide the same day and towed to Barry Dock for repair.
Gerard Callenburgh-class destroyer
"Isaac Sweers" was, unlike her sister "Philips Van Almonde", launched and then towed to England by the tug "Zwarte Zee". She was completed in England by J Thornycroft using British armament and fire control equipment. She went on to serve in the Mediterranean Sea with Force H. In December 1941, together with , and she sank the Italian cruisers and in the Battle of Cape Bon. She then briefly served in the Indian Ocean with the Eastern Fleet. She was sunk by commanded by Wilhelm Dommes on 13 November 1942 in the Western Mediterranean, with the loss of 108 men.
Irsee Abbey
In 1699 the dilapidated church tower collapsed and damaged the choir of the old Romanesque church built in 1194, which prompted Abbot Romanus to undertake the revamping of the church and monastery buildings. The construction project was greatly expanded by its successor, abbot Willibald Grindl and the monastery buildings were completely rebuilt. The plans have been attributed to Magnus Remy, an Irsee monk, who also created many of the paintings in the church. During the long rule of Abbot Bernard Beck (1731-1765), Irsee became a center of intellectual and scientific life in Swabia and beyond. Irsee's natural history collection with its instruments of mathematics and physics were famous.
The abbey celebrated the 600th anniversary of its foundation in 1782 but its prosperity soon came to a brutal end in the aftermath of the French Revolution and Napoleonic campaigns. War refugees seek refuge and accommodation in the abbey, which also suffered heavily from military marches, billeting and heavy war contributions. Finally, in the course of the German mediatisation of 1802-1803, Irsee, like all the other Imperial abbeys, lost its independence and was dissolved. On 3 September 1802, soldiers of the Electorate of Bavaria launched a "provisional military occupation" of Irsee and in 1803 the territory of the former abbey, including the villages of Irsee, Romatsried, Eggenthal, Baisweil, Lauchdorf, Ingenried, Schlingen, Ketterschwang, Rieden, Pforzen, Leinau and Mauerstetten, was absorbed into the Electorate, as were its 3221 inhabitants. The monastery's inventory was auctioned off. In 1833, the greater part of the library was moved to Metten Abbey.
HMS Isis (D87)
"Isis", named for the Egyptian goddess, was laid down by the Yarrow and Company, at Scotstoun in Glasgow on 6 February 1936, launched on 12 November 1936 and commissioned on 2 June 1937. "Isis" took part in the evacuation of Greece in April 1941. On 19 February 1943 she and the escort destroyer and a Vickers Wellington medium bomber attacked and sank the in the Mediterranean Sea north-east of Benghazi.
Japanese battleship Ise
To provide distant support for the 1st Air Fleet attacking Pearl Harbor on 8 December, the division, reinforced by the battleships and and the light carrier , sortied from Hashirajima to the Bonin Islands and returned six days later. "Ise" had a minor refit at the Kure Naval Arsenal in 19–25 February 1942. Together with the rest of the division, she pursued, but did not catch, the American carrier force that had launched the Doolittle Raid on 18 April. On 11 May "Ise" had an accident which flooded her No. 2 engine room. While under repair, the ship was fitted with one of the first experimental Type 21 early-warning radar sets in the IJN, but it was removed shortly afterwards.
JS Ise
JS "Ise" (DDH-182) (伊勢) is a of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). It is the second ship to be named "Ise", the first being the Imperial Japanese Navy World War II-era battleship .
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Irma (steamship)
The Irma was a steamship which sank on July 14, 1911 at Port Limón , Costa Rica after a collision with the Steamship Diamante. Loss of life approximately 39 (32 passengers and 7 crew- "Warren Evening Mirror") . The accident occurred in the estuary of the St. John river where both vessels were maneuvering during a violent storm. The accident occurred at 8:00 p.m. local time. The Diamante's bow struck the Irma's midship forcing her nose deep inside the Irma's hull The Irma was en route to Greytown .
Ais people
In 1605, Governor Pedro de Ibarra sent a soldier, Álvaro Mexía, on a diplomatic mission to the Ais nation. The mission was a success; the Ais agreed to care for shipwrecked sailors for a ransom, and Mexía completed a map of the Indian River area with their help. Numerous European artifacts from shipwrecks have been found in Ais settlements. When the Dickinson party reached the town, there was already in Jece another group of English from a shipwreck. European and African survivors of shipwrecks were fairly common along the coast. The Ais also traded with St. Augustine. Dickinson reports that one man of Jece had approximately five pounds of ambergris; he "boasted that when he went for Augustine with that, he would purchase of the Spaniards a looking-glass, an axe, a knife or two, and three or four "mannocoes" (which is about five or six pounds) of tobacco."