Clive Cussler; Craig Dirgo (46 page)

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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