National Underwater and Marine Agency - NUMA Expeditions

NUMA Expeditions

NUMA's expeditions tend to focus on ships of American origin from the early 19th century to the early 20th century, especially on Union and Confederate ships of the American Civil War. NUMA has located or attempted to locate the following vessels and marine artifacts:

  • HMS Actaeon
  • USS Akron
  • CSS Alabama
  • Alexander Nevski, a Russian steam frigate; stranded off Thyborøn in 1868 while carrying the crown prince
  • CSS Arkansas
  • SMS Blücher, a German heavy cruiser; sunk at the battle of Dogger Bank in 1915
  • Brutus, a schooner of the Republic of Texas Navy
  • Bonhomme Richard
  • USS Carondelet
  • RMS Carpathia
  • CSS Chicora
  • CSS Charleston
  • USS Commodore Jones
  • USS Cumberland
  • USS Cyclops
  • CSS Drewry
  • HMS Defence, a British armoured cruiser, sunk during the battle of Jutland
  • HM Bark Endeavour
  • CSS Florida
  • CSS Fredericksburg
  • CSS Gaines
  • CSS General Beauregard
  • CSS General Lovell
  • General Slocum
  • CSS General Thompson
  • CSS Governor Moore
  • Great Stone Fleet
  • Greyhound
  • HMS Hawke, a first-class British cruiser, sunk by the German U-boat U-9 in October 1914
  • USS Housatonic
  • H. L. Hunley
  • HMS Invincible, a British battle cruiser, sunk at the battle of Jutland
  • Ivanhoe, a Confederate blockade runner
  • CSS Jamestown
  • USS Keokuk
  • L'Oiseau Blanc ("White Bird"), aircraft flown by Charles Nungesser and François Coli which vanished on an attempted transatlantic flight in 1927
  • Leopoldville, a Belgian troop transport torpedoed outside Cherbourg in 1944
  • Lexington
  • Lost Locomotive of Kiowa Creek
  • CSS Louisiana
  • George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, explorers lost on Mount Everest in 1924
  • CSS Manassas
  • Mary Celeste
  • USS Milwaukee
  • USS Mississippi
  • New Orleans
  • Norseman, a Confederate blockade runner
  • Northampton, a Confederate cargo ship
  • Odin, a Royal Swedish steamship that ran aground off Jutland in 1836 with the Swedish prime minister on board
  • USS Osage
  • CSS Palmetto State
  • USS Patapsco
  • HMS Pathfinder, a British scout cruiser
  • USS Philippe
  • Platte Valley
  • Raccoon, a Confederate blockade runner
  • Rattlesnake, a Confederate blockade runner
  • HMS Resolution
  • CSS Richmond
  • Ruby, a Confederate blockade runner
  • S-35, a German destroyer sunk during the battle of Jutland
  • Saint Patrick, a Confederate blockade runner
  • SS Savannah, the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean
  • HMS Shark, a British destroyer sunk during the battle of Jutland
  • Stonewall Jackson, a Confederate blockade runner
  • Sultana, the worst ship disaster in number of lives lost in North America
  • Swamp Angel, the cannon that fired during the American Civil War on Charleston before exploding
  • Torpedo Raft
  • Twin Sisters, a pair of six-pounder cannon used against General Antonio López de Santa Anna in the battle of San Jacinto
  • U-12, sunk by HMS Ariel in 1915
  • U-20, a German U-boat that sank the oceanliner RMS Lusitania in 1915; ran aground on the Jutland coast in 1916, abandoned by crew and blown up by Denmark
  • U-21, a German U-boat, sank in 1919
  • V-48, a German destroyer sunk during the Battle of Jutland
  • USS Varuna
  • CSS Virginia, a.k.a. USS Merrimack
  • CSS Virginia II
  • Virginia Navy Fleet sunk by Benedict Arnold
  • USS Weehawken
  • Waratah
  • SMS Wiesbaden, a German light cruiser sunk off Jutland
  • Zavala, a steamer in the Republic of Texas Navy

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