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  67. UB-74

  German U-boat that sank after being depth-charged off Weymouth, England, in 1916.

  68. V-48

  German cruiser sunk during the Battle of Jutland in 1916.

  69. VARUNA (U.S.S.)

  Union navy gunboat that was rammed three times during the battle of New Orleans. Credited with sinking six vessels before being forced ashore and burned in 1862.

  70. VICKSBURG

  Britsh freighter stranded on Fire Island, New York, in 1875.

  71. VIRGINIA II (C.S.S.)

  Confederate ironclad that prevented General Grant’s army from crossing the James River to take Richmond. Burned by her crew to avoid capture at Drewry’s Bluff in 1865.

  72. WARATAH

  Passenger liner that disappeared off the coast of Africa in 1911. Two hundred passengers and crew lost.

  73. WEEHAWKEN (U.S.S.)

  Led the first attack on Fort Sumter. The only Union monitor to capture a Confederate ironclad in battle. Sank as a result of a storm off Charleston, South Carolina, in 1864.

  74. WIESBADEN

  German heavy cruiser sunk during the Battle of Jutland in 1916.

  75. ZAVALA (R.T.N.)

  Passenger steamboat converted to armed warship by the Republic of Texas Navy. Probably the first armed steamship in North America. Grounded in Galveston Bay, Texas, in 1842.

  ADDITIONAL HISTORIC SITES AND ARTIFACTS

  1. AKRON (U.S.S.)

  United States Navy blimp that featured docking and hangaring for nine aircraft while in flight. Crashed near Beach Haven, New Jersey, in 1933. Loss of seventy-three crew.

  2. L’OISEAU BLANC (WHITE BIRD)

  French airplane attempting to capture the Orteig Prize later won by Charles Lindbergh. Plane believed to have been heard over Machias, Maine, but no trace has ever turned up.

  3. LOST LOCOMOTIVE OF KIOWA CREEK

  Area east of Denver, Colorado, where a Union Pacific locomotive and train were washed away in 1876. Later investigation proved that the locomotive was secretly raised and put back into service in what amounted to an insurance scam.

  4. SWAMP ANGEL

  Remains of the eight-inch Parrot gun that lobbed 150-pound projectiles into Charleston, South Carolina, during the Civil War.

  5. TWIN SISTERS

  Famous cannon used by Sam Houston at the battle of San Jacinto. Later used in the Civil War, then hidden by Confederate soldiers so they would not be destroyed.

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