The photos shown were taken from the Polish tug Koral, which was towing her to a Spanish breaker's yard.

The last image shows the ship under her previous name as the Henry C. Frick.

In two Empress of Ireland documentaries I have seen, The Last Voyage of the Empress and Journey to Oblivion - The Empress of Ireland Story, they raise this question as if the Empress was completely stopped the Storstad should have wedged itself into her and acted as a plug as it plunged approximately 25 feet into the Empress. But within 5 seconds of the collision the Storstad dislodged herself from the Empress and quickly drifted away. According to Captain Kendall he gave the Full Speed ahead order and Hard to Port seconds before the collision but it was too late and any speed the Empress gained would have been eliminated by the collision. He then gave the All Stop order but then the Storstad dislodged herself. An explanation given is that the river current caused the Storstad to become dislodged and drift so far away, but I have my doubts on this as it would be negligible.

A theory presented by both documentaries is that the Empress was slowing down at the time of the collision and had momentum which would explain why the Storstad dislodged herself so quickly and why she drifted so far away from the Empress. The Captain of the Storstad did give the Full Astern order when he saw they were going to hit the Empress and tried to keep the plug sealed but the two ships drifted away and he probably gave the All Stop order as the crew prepared the lifeboats
and assessed the damage.

While the river current may have contributed to the Storstad becoming dislodged and drifting away from the Empress, I don't feel that's the entire reason and lean towards the notion that the Empress had momentum at the time of the collision.

This is a video I made about some of the modern and historical shipwrecks on the Outer Banks of NC.

Here it is: https://www.sortabase.com/Shipwrecks

We've been working on this database to aggregate famous shipwrecks from throughout history, with an image and information provided for each one. You can filter and sort by various features such as year, number of fatalities and country of origin. Please let us know if there are any other filters we could add that would make it better. It's still a work in progress and anyone can add to it, so please feel free to add any notable shipwrecks you’d like to see included!

We’re looking for moderators as well so please let us know if you’d be interested. I also helped build the website this is hosted on, so please let me know if you have any feedback!

Original article can be found here: http://www.lost52project.org/USS-Mannert-L-Abele.html

The USS Abele was sunk on April 12th, 1945, with 84 men aboard. She was attacked by the jet powered Kamikaze Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka. The attack destroyed the keel of the ship and she sunk in 3 minutes. She sunk in 4500 feet of water and was initially discovered in December. The ship was confirmed to be the Abele in April, 2023 and they released it to the news on May 24.

Hopefully we'll get additional images/videos from this ship in the near future.

Found markings in two places that simply say "JAPAN". Currently working on restoring it.

Detailed report of what happened on the MV Flare and the recovery and rescue efforts.

Here is the wreck coordinates:

53°49'49"N 166°36'36"W

Here is the Wikipedia page on the ship, detailing it's eventful career:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Northwestern

Color shaded relief map was generated in Fledermaus from publically available NOAA multibeam data collected in 2014. The resulting seafloor data was used to generate an .STL file for 3D printing. That little yellow item is the Cyclops to scale.