Philippine owned freighter Kabbarli burns at a dock in Phnom Penh after being struck by insurgent rocket fire en route to the Cambodian capital on Friday, August 3, 1974. Firemen failed to quench the blaze on the vessel making the hazardous Mekong River run and it sank from the weight of water poured on burning cargo. (Photo by AP Photo Moonface)





The freighter silver hawk, beached at Gulfport, Miss., on August 3, 1970 by hurricane Camille, appears to be adrift on a sea of debris. The silver hawk was one of two cargo ships run aground by the 200-mile-per-hour hurricane. Both, still there almost a year later, are yielding to the blowtorch as crews dismantle them. (Photo by Jack Thornell/AP Photo)





British liner Queen Mary steams along the North River, New York, on August 10, 1945, bringing home thousands of American servicemen. (Photo by AP Photo)





U.S. troops returning from Europe fill every porthole as the HMS Queen Elizabeth pulls into a pier in New York Harbor August 31, 1945. (Photo by AP Photo)





The Taiwan-registered oil tanker “Energy Determination”, seen ablaze and sinking off Coin Island in the Hormuz Straits on Thursday, December 13, 1979. The cause of the fire was not known. The 320,000 ton tanker was empty and heading north when fire broke out around 0100 local time. Oman patrol boats responded to a distress call from the ship and rescued 37 crew members but one was still unaccounted for. (Photo by AP Photo)





Smoke billows from the Italian-flagged Norman Atlantic ferry that caught fire in the Adriatic Sea, Tuesday, December 30, 2014. A blaze broke out on the car deck of the Norman Atlantic Sunday, Dec. 28, while the ferry was traveling from the Greek port of Patras to Ancona in Italy causing the death of at least 11 people. Italian and Greek helicopter rescue crews evacuated 427 people among passengers and crew members but Italian officials think the death toll could be much higher because of serious discrepancies in the ship's manifest and confusion over how many people were aboard. “We cannot say how many people may be missing”, Italian Transport Minister Maurizio Lupi said at a news conference. The cause of the fire is under investigation. (Photo by Antonio Calanni/AP Photo)





The Queen Mary is escorted by an armada of small craft in the final moments of her final cruise as she arrived at the outer breakwater of Long Beach, California harbor December 9, 1967. Hundreds of thousands crowded the shoreline to watch as the huge vessel arrived to become a floating hotel-convention center and maritime museum in Long Beach harbor. (Photo by David F. Smith/AP Photo)





The battleship USS Iowa fires its 16-inch guns during duty in the Persian Gulf on December 16, 1987. In 1943, the Iowa ferried President Franklin Roosevelt home from the Teheran Conference, where post-WW II leaders divided up the world. The ship fought battles from the South Pacific to Korea and escorted convoys through the Persian Gulf. Forty-seven sailors died atop its deck when an explosion ripped through a gun turret. Now, the new port for the retired USS Iowa just might be the home of California's annual asparagus festival, the gritty agriculture port town of Stockton on the San Joaquin River, about 80 miles inland from San Francisco. (Photo by Eric Risberg/AP Photo)





A stern view of the Japanese two-man submarine which participated in the surprise Japanese raid on Peal Harbour and was rammed, shelled and sunk by U.S. Forces on January 12, 1942. The portion rammed by the destroyer is clearly seen on the submarine. (Photo by AP Photo)





Smoke rises from the fire aboard the navy aircraft carrier USS Constellation at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on the East River in New York, December 19, 1960. In the background is part of the Brooklyn waterfront. The fire began after a forklift collided with fuel tank as construction of the carrier neared completion. Fifty people were killed and hundreds injured. (Photo by AP Photo)





The Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria keels far over to starboard before sinking 225 feet to the bottom of the Atlantic 45 miles off Nantucket Island, Ma., July 26, 1956. The Andrea Doria was struck broadside by the Swedish-American liner Stockholm in heavy fog July 25 at 11:10 p.m.. (Photo by John Rooney/AP Photo)





The mighty Queen Mary shown as she edged up lower New York Harbor, with the skyline of Manhattan in the background, toward her pier and the completion of her first voyage to the United States, June 1, 1936. (Photo by AP Photo)





The fishing schooner three brothers rests high and dry on a road after it was tossed from the water as hurricane Audrey ripped through south Louisiana coastal town in Cameron, La., on June 28, 1957. Many boats were tossed ashore or sunk during the first hurricane of the season. (Photo by Randy Taylor/AP Photo)





Sailors line the decks of Americas veteran battleship New York as tugs nose the ship into her berth, in New York, on Ocober. 24, 1945, where the vessel arrived for the Navy Day Celebrations. Commissioned at New York in 1914 the ships is one of the oldest battleships in the U.S. Navy, having seen action in two wars and served in both the Atlantic and Pacific in World War II. (Photo by AP Photo)





The Graf Zeppelin, Germany's first aircraft carrier, gliding down the slipway at Kiel, on December 8, 1938. (Photo by AP Photo)





South Korean navy check a North Korean submarine on South Korea's east coast at Kangrung, northeast of Seoul, Thursday, September 19, 1996. South Korean soldiers shot and killed three North Koreans and captured two Thursday, one day after a group of communist infiltrators abandoned their damaged submarine on the rocky coast. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





On September 17, 1939, the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Courageous is hit by a torpedo from the German submarine U29 and sinks within 20 minutes, southwest off Ireland, taking almost half of the crew with her. (Photo by AP Photo)





New Cunard liner, the Queen Mary, slips into the water during her launch at the John Brown Shipyard at Clydebank, Scotland, September 26, 1934. The liner was launched by Her Majesty Queen Mary and was previously known only as Cunarder 534. (Photo by Len Putnam/AP Photo)