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- USS LSM-380 (redirect from MV Salvage Chief)exploded at the dock at the Port of Los Angeles. Salvage Chief was dispatched to salvage the wreck and pump out oil from the harbor. In the 1980s, the...8 KB (703 words) - 11:26, 22 March 2023
- USS Windlass (category Gypsy-class salvage lifting vessels)company with Salvager, began searching for the sunken patrol craft YP-387. She located the wreck and began salvage operations while Salvager returned to...21 KB (2,748 words) - 06:17, 15 June 2022
- USS Weight (category Weight-class rescue and salvage ships)the wrecked Liberty ship, Samuel Huntington. The salvage vessel trained both monitors (large deck-mounted water guns) and a 2½-inch hose on the wreck and...16 KB (2,004 words) - 11:36, 29 February 2024
- USS Curb (category Diver-class rescue and salvage ships)USS Curb (ARS-21) was a Diver-class rescue and salvage ship commissioned by the U.S. Navy during World War II. Her task was to come to the aid of stricken...5 KB (384 words) - 11:49, 7 April 2023
- USS Valve (category Diver-class rescue and salvage ships)Valve commenced salvage operations on the sunken LST-515 on 31 May, her divers making 225 dives in 41 days. She worked on the wreck, removing such items...7 KB (724 words) - 11:58, 7 April 2023
- USS Diver (category Diver-class rescue and salvage ships)underway for Baie de la Seine, France, where she was attached to the Salvage, Wreck Disposal, Mine Disposal, and Hydrographic Survey Unit. She rescued 30...5 KB (426 words) - 11:50, 7 April 2023
- USS Favorite (category Rescue and salvage ships of the United States Navy)performed a variety of work for the navy, including icebreaking, salvage, wrecking, and tugboat services. She was loaned to Panamanian authorities after...7 KB (599 words) - 17:49, 13 April 2023
- Relief (ID-2170) was a salvage tug that served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919. Relief was a steel-hulled wrecking tug built during 1907 by...4 KB (243 words) - 06:01, 26 May 2022
- addition to the 98 fatalities a five men crew from a salvage tug drowned trying to reach the wrecked ship. This article incorporates text from the public...5 KB (389 words) - 06:43, 20 June 2023
- USS Majaba (section Wreck)Ocean and at Guadalcanal she was struck by a torpedo and beached. After salvage, towing, removal of engines and repair at Tulagi the ship served as a barracks...21 KB (2,155 words) - 12:56, 24 April 2023
- Holden Beach and the surrounding area would row out to the wreck in an attempt to salvage anything of value. Neil Holden, a Confederate soldier and descendant...5 KB (546 words) - 20:42, 30 January 2024
- to blast the wreck into salvageable pieces. In 1876, the relatives of the men lost on Tecumseh petitioned Congress to stop the salvage. Congress quickly...18 KB (2,071 words) - 19:00, 7 April 2024
- USS Puritan (ID-2222) (category Wreck diving sites)salvageable and remained on the rocks until it was broken up in an October storm. It sank near the wrecks of Cumberland and Henry Chisholm. The wreck...8 KB (606 words) - 17:02, 20 June 2023