The Cairo was raised in 1964 and is on display at the Vickburg National Military Park. The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar. It all started in 1896, when a British ship landed in a Zanzibar port because the crew wanted to watch a cricket match. The sultan of Zanzibar was insulted that they did not ask permission, so he declared war on Britain. Jetsam refers to cargo thrown off of a ship in order to save it, but the ship still sinks and the cargo floats on the water.
Flotsam refers to the cargo that ends up on the water after the ship sinks.
The line drawn on exterior of a ship to indicate cargo loading capacity is called the Plimsoll Line. Columbus sailed off to discover the new world with his three ships. A bespectacled, unimposing James J. Kilroy was hired as an inspector at the Fore River Shipyards in Quincy, Mass., two days before the attack on Pearl Harbor. His supervisors questioned his work and Kilroy felt they were being unfair. He began to write Kilroy was here on ships he d inspected to make it clear he was on the job.