Essay On The Sinking Of The Uss Indianapolis

sunk at around 2:20am. There were 9 dogs total on board the ship, only 2 were rescued. 1,503

communication, some men couldn’t swim, and some of the men didn’t make it to the lifeboat.

two comrades; Phil and Mac were shot down and they were lost at sea for 45 days. They had

giving the conditions they were living in. They then had to deal with the cold and the fact that

The Indianapolis was a flagship and it had just gotten done delivering parts to another ship. On it’s way back to port, a Japanese submarine shot the Indianapolis with a torpedo and the ship started to sink. The crew members got on life rafts and were stranded in the middle of the ocean with little food and water. On the third day of being stranded sharks went into a frenzied attack eating the crew members. Finally, on the fourth day they were found.

Another well-known shipwreck, the Ellen Austin, left England to go to New York in 1881. During their trip, they found an abandoned ship and the captain told six men to go on and ride beside them until they arrived in New York. Eventually, the boat got lost and was never to be seen again. But in 1944, retired Navy officer Commander Gould said the ship was found again by the Ellen Austin. He reported that no one was on board and the ship was “sailing erratically” (10 Terrifying.)

Which meant that diseases were spreading so every morning they would come down to collect those that was ill taken up onto the deck, then throw them over board and due to the fact of their hands and feet being tied together they were not able to swim which caused them to drown.

and had to survive the best they could. Often, many slaves had to wait in the

There terrifying journey begins with one of the three men on the raft eating all the food that they had. As a teen, I eat all of the time and can’t go an hour without popping a snack in my mouth, and just the thought of little no to food for around four weeks is just horrifying. After finding out one of the men ate all of the food I got annoyed while just sitting in my seat and just couldn’t even make sense of the sentence. If I were one of the other two men I would have immediately gotten so angry that he might have been knocked around a bit.

The network reported that the men had been traveling to Micronesia to catch a flight when the boat

The survivors said they were in the cold waters for hours before being rescued about 3pm that day. They said more than 140 people were aboard the boat.

It was a cramped, disease ridden ship. After getting off the ship and onto the untamed

Throughout Harry Kelsey’s book, “The First Circumnavigators”, as well as, Roger Crowley’s book “Conquerors”, they both explain many misfortunes and hazards that the Spanish and Portuguese explorers faced during the various expeditions that set sail on. Many misfortunes that happened on the voyages included bad weather, scarce food, individual faults, as well as attacks and invasions.

Without the proper amount of water, your body will become dehydrated and because you are now dehydrated, your body will become physically weaker.

A boat with four men aboard took on water after being hit by a large wave resulting in boat sinking, during the summer of 1884. All four men boarded a lifeboat however the only provisions were two cans of turnips. The four people were Dudley - Captain, Stephens - ¬