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Lost at Sea Historical Markers

Markers honoring merchant mariners, fishermen/women, crew and passengers who have been lost at sea during warfare and peacetime. Includes those lost in freshwater disasters as well.
 
Flight 800 Memorial Marker image, Touch for more information
By Karen Emerson-McPeak, September 26, 2017
Flight 800 Memorial Marker
1 Alabama, Jackson County, Stevenson — Flight 800 Memorial
2 Alabama, Mobile County, Mobile — H.L. Hunley — Confederate States Torpedo Boat Submarine
3 Alabama, Mobile County, Mobile — The Fallen Guardians Monument
4 Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery — Sherman W. White, Jr. — (1919 - 1943) — First Lieutenant, 99th Fighter Squadron —
5 Alaska, Juneau Borough, Juneau, Downtown Juneau — Passenger Traffic — Sea & Sky: Juneau's Links to the World
6 California, Humboldt County, Trinidad — 146 — Trinidad Memorial Lighthouse — A New Home!
7 California, Marin County, Inverness — Victims of the Coast
8 California, Monterey County, Carmel-by-the-Sea — Portola Crespi Cross
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9 California, San Diego County, San Diego — Tuna Fleet Service, World War II (1941-1945) — Tuna Harbor, San Diego —
10 California, San Diego County, San Diego — USS Gambier Bay CVE 73 and Composite Squadron VC-10 — United States Navy — In Memory of the Men Lost in Action —
11 California, San Francisco City and County, San Francisco, Northern Waterfront — A Sailor’s Life is a Dangerous One
12 California, San Mateo County, Half Moon Bay, Pillar Point Harbor — In Memorial to the Commercial Fisherman Lost at Sea
13 Colorado, El Paso County, United States Air Force Academy — 10th Emergency Rescue Boat Squadron — 1942 - 1945
14 Connecticut, Middlesex County, Middletown — The deKoven House
15 Connecticut, New London County, Groton, Conning Towers-Nautilus Park — Missions NR-1
16 Connecticut, New London County, New London — Coast Guard Cutter Alexander Hamilton
17 Connecticut, New London County, New London — The United States Coast Guard Greenland Patrol
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18 Connecticut, New London County, Stonington, Mystic — "Hobey's Dock" — ★ In Memoriam ★
19 Delaware, Sussex County, Lewes, Lewes Historic District — H.M. Brig DeBraak
20 Delaware, Sussex County, Lewes, Lewes Historic District — 11 — Monomoy History & Restoration — Lewes Maritime History Trail
21 District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, Columbia Island — Navy and Marine Memorial — Dedicated to Americans Lost at Sea
22 Florida, Broward County, Pompano Beach — A History of Hillsboro Inlet Park
23 Florida, Marion County, Ocala — United States Merchant Marine — WWII — Ocala - Marion County Veterans Memorial Park —
24 Florida, Monroe County, Islamorada — Rafters
25 Florida, Monroe County, Key West — World War II — Key West — Florida Keys Historical Military Memorial
26 Florida, Orange County, Orlando — Roberto Clemente Walker — March 20, 1955 — Tinker Field History Plaza —
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27 Florida, St. Lucie County, Fort Pierce — The United States Submarine Service Memorial — Indian River Veterans Memorial Park
28 Georgia, Baldwin County, Milledgeville — Rear Admiral John W. Wilcox
29 Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, Hitch Village/Fred Wessels Homes — 14 — Savannah's Liberty Ships and the Atlantic Bridge
30 Georgia, Elbert County, Elberton — USS Scorpion (SS-278)
31 Georgia, Hall County, Lula — Capt Denver V. Truelove
32 Georgia, Screven County, Sylvania — 124-1 — The Sinking of the H.M.S. Otranto
33 Hawaii, Hawaii County, Laupahoehoe — Laupahoehoe Point
34 Hawaii, Honolulu County, Aiea — USS Parche
35 Hawaii, Honolulu County, Honolulu — Lost Submarine Memorial — United States Submarine Losses-Prior To and After World War II- — USS Bowfin Museum and Park —
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36 Hawaii, Honolulu County, Honolulu — USS Seawolf (SS-197) — Bowfin Park — Pearl Harbor —
37 Hawaii, Honolulu County, Honolulu — USS Swordfish (SS-193) — Bowfin Park — Pearl Harbor —
38 Hawaii, Honolulu County, Honolulu — USS Tang (SS-306) — Bowfin Park — Pearl Harbor —
39 Hawaii, Honolulu County, Honolulu — USS Wahoo (SS-238) — Bowfin Park — Pearl Harbor —
40 Hawaii, Honolulu County, Honolulu, Nuuanu - Punchbowl — The Honolulu Memorial at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
41 Indiana, Henry County, New Castle — USS Hyman DD732 — 1944 - - 1969 —
42 Indiana, Marion County, Indianapolis, Upper Canal — USS Indianapolis CA-35
43 Kentucky, Hopkins County, Nortonville — 1612 — Cmdr. D. W. "Mush" Morton, USN / Wahoo
44 Louisiana, Ascension Parish, Gonzales — WWII - War In The Pacific
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45 Maine, Waldo County, Searsport — 15 — Home of Clara Pendleton Blanchard 1843-1931 / La maison de Clara Pendleton Blanchard 1843-1931 — Searsport, Maine — The Museum in the Streets —
46 Maine, Washington County, Jonesboro — Shipbuilding
47 Maine, York County, Old Orchard Beach — "Runway to Glory"
48 Maryland, Anne Arundel County, Annapolis — Commander William Lewis Herndon — 1813 - 1857 — Naval Officer - Explorer - Merchant Captain —
49 Maryland, Anne Arundel County, Annapolis — Maryland World War II Memorial
50 Maryland, Baltimore, Inner Harbor — Pride of Baltimore
51 Maryland, Cecil County, Elkton — Michael Rudulph
52 Maryland, Kent County, Rock Hall — Wickliffe
53 Massachusetts, Barnstable County, Bourne — SS Pan Oceanic Faith Memorial — Part of the Merchant Marine Memorial at Massachusetts Maritime Academy
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54 Massachusetts, Barnstable County, Bourne — The Unknown Seaman Memorial — Part of the Merchant Marine Memorial at Massachusetts Maritime Academy
55 Massachusetts, Essex County, Gloucester — Admiralty Anchor — In use between 1800 and 1850
56 Massachusetts, Essex County, Gloucester — Gloucester Fishermen's Memorial
57 Massachusetts, Essex County, Newburyport — Newburyport Sailor's Memorial
58 Massachusetts, Essex County, Swampscott — Swampscott Mariners Memorial
59 Massachusetts, Hampden County, Chicopee — World War Memorial
60 Massachusetts, Norfolk County, Quincy — Three Adams Brothers
61 Michigan, Chippewa County, Paradise — Graveyard of the Great Lakes
62 Michigan, Huron County, Harbor Beach — Shipwrecks of the Harbor Beach Area
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63 Michigan, Huron County, Harbor Beach — The Great Storm of 1913
64 Michigan, Leelanau County, Empire — Of Wrecks and Water Trails — Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore —
65 Michigan, Mason County, Ludington — S0318 — Armistice Day Storm
66 Michigan, Presque Isle County, Rogers City — 2186 — Forty Mile Point Lighthouse / Lake Huron Graveyard of Ships
67 Michigan, St. Clair County, Port Huron — Commerce & Catastrophe
68 Michigan, St. Clair County, Port Huron — Great Storm of 1913 and Sailors Memorial
69 Michigan, Wayne County, Detroit, Belle Isle — S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald — 1958 - 1975
70 Michigan, Wayne County, Detroit, Belle Isle — S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald — Anchor
71 Minnesota, Goodhue County, Red Wing — The Sea Wing Disaster / Victims of the Sea Wing Disaster
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72 Minnesota, Saint Louis County, Duluth, Canal Park — The Wreck of the Mataafa
73 Minnesota, Wabasha County, Lake City — The Sea Wing Disaster
74 Missouri, Buchanan County, St. Joseph — William Mitchelhill — August 27th 1870 - May 7th 1915 — In Memoriam —
75 Nebraska, Knox County, Niobrara — 101 — The Sage Brothers
76 New Hampshire, Rockingham County, Portsmouth — CMoMM (SS) Arthur L. Stanton Chief of the Boat (COB) — Albacore — Portsmouth Submarine Memorial Association —
77 New Hampshire, Rockingham County, Portsmouth — New Hampshire's Lost Boat — USS Capelin SS 289
78 New Jersey, Atlantic County, Atlantic City — Dedicated to the Men and Women Who Lost Their Lives at Sea
79 New Jersey, Atlantic County, Atlantic City — Lighthouse History / Absecon Lighthouse Facts — Absecon Lighthouse
80 New Jersey, Atlantic County, Atlantic City — The Whaling Bark Stafford — Absecon Lighthouse
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81 New Jersey, Atlantic County, Atlantic City — USCS Steamer Robert J. Walker / Assistant Keepers' Dwelling
82 New Jersey, Camden County, Camden, Central Waterfront — U.S. Merchant Marine and U.S. Navy Armed Guard
83 New Jersey, Cape May County, Cape May — Cape May County Fishermans Memorial
84 New Jersey, Monmouth County, Asbury Park — S.S. Morro Castle Disaster
85 New Jersey, Ocean County, Barnegat Light — U.S. Merchant Marine WW II Memorial
86 New Jersey, Ocean County, Surf City — USS Murphy
87 New York, Chautauqua County, Dunkirk — Eastern Basin Shipwrecks — A Watery Record of Mishaps — Maritime Heritage —
88 New York, New York County, Manhattan, Battery Park — American Merchant Mariners' Memorial
89 New York, New York County, Manhattan, Battery Park — American Merchant Mariners' Memorial
90 New York, New York County, Manhattan, Financial District — Wireless Operators Memorial
91 New York, New York County, Manhattan, Hamilton Heights — Stephen H. Tyng Jr
92 New York, Richmond County, Staten Island, Fort Wadsworth — The Four Chaplains
93 New York, Suffolk County, Montauk Point — Lost At Sea
94 New York, Wayne County, Pultneyville — Wreck of the St. Peter — National Register of Historic Places
95 North Carolina, Chatham County, Pittsboro — H-10 — Captain Johnston Blakeley
96 North Carolina, Currituck County, Corolla — A-33 — Wreck Of The Metropolis
97 Ohio, Adams County, Peebles — The Shawnee And The King Of The Serpents
98 Ohio, Ashtabula County, Ashtabula — American Merchant Marine Veterans Memorial
99 Ohio, Lucas County, Toledo, East Toledo — America's Submarines Of The Great Lakes
100 Ohio, Lucas County, Toledo, Southside — Inuksuk — (in-uk-shuk) Inuit translation: "something resembling a man."

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