• Thumbnail for SS Mactan
    SS Mactan was launched 28 December 1898 as the passenger/cargo ship North Lyell for North Mount Lyell Copper Co.Ltd. intended for service between the...
    23 KB (2,539 words) - 16:01, 1 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for USS Pike (SS-173)
    On 1 January 1942 she sighted the hospital ship SS Mactan. On 10 January she sighted USS Shark (SS-174). On 12 January she sighted the Japanese minelayer Shirataka...
    14 KB (1,011 words) - 07:51, 31 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Douglas Steamship Company
     71–72, 125. "Formosa SS (1882~1903) Cantabria SS (+1905)". wrecksite.eu. WreckSite. 2019. Retrieved 4 December 2019. "Hai-Mun SS (1896~1928) Eika Maru...
    16 KB (1,221 words) - 20:54, 10 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for USS Snapper (SS-185)
    to evade an attacking escort ship. Later that night, she was ordered to Mactan Island to unload ammunition and take on board 46 tons of food for the besieged...
    16 KB (1,728 words) - 08:35, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for United States naval bases in the Philippines
    Palawan, FPO# 3146 Naval Base at Batangas Bay, FPO# 3160 Naval Base at Mactan Island, FPO# 3858, depot, repair, seaplane base Naval Base at Cagayan, Mindanao...
    13 KB (1,469 words) - 01:20, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Typhoon Gaemi
    efforts and damage assessments were also readied in Clark, Davao City, Laoag, Mactan, and the Zamboanga Peninsula. The Central Weather Administration issued...
    69 KB (6,214 words) - 17:00, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Legazpi Airport
    the late 1980s PAL introduced Boeing 737-300s. YS-11s provided airlink to Mactan, Cebu, Masbate, and Virac. When PAL phased out the YS-11s and the short-lived...
    12 KB (1,124 words) - 02:35, 18 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charles Lindbergh
    ridge were extracted. With Lindbergh aboard, the helicopter then flew to Mactan Air Base, on the island of Cebu, where photographers were waiting for him...
    234 KB (25,132 words) - 21:03, 31 October 2024
  • intrenacional de España en los años 1621-1632". Wydawnictwo DiG, Varsovia 2008, ss. 321. Skowron, Ryszard. "El Mar Báltico en la estrategia española de guerra...
    567 KB (4,832 words) - 04:48, 3 November 2024
  • Magellan reaches Guam and the Philippines. He is killed on the island of Mactan in the Philippines, but the expedition's two remaining ships attempt to...
    47 KB (1,194 words) - 15:49, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of ships of the United States Army
    Army FSR-791 ("FSR" indicated a refrigerated freight and supply vessel) Mactan, an 1898 Newcastle built 312 foot long oil fired passenger/cargo vessel...
    100 KB (10,208 words) - 20:02, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Seabees in World War II
    Saipan Acorn 47 Puerto Princesa Acorn 50 Kobler, Saipan Acorn 51 Cebu/Mactan Island Acorn 52 Puerto Princesa 84th CB Acorn 55 commissioned at the Argus...
    96 KB (11,047 words) - 03:59, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Operation Sandblast
    appreciate a sample of this body of water." On April 1, Triton spotted Mactan Island, and shortly before noon, sighted the monument (pictured) commemorating...
    128 KB (14,151 words) - 08:41, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay
    000 dependents over the next few days. The evacuees were taken by ship to Mactan Air Base and then were airlifted by U.S. Air Force C-141 Starlifters to...
    60 KB (7,435 words) - 19:44, 4 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ship replica
    Dingyuan; a replica of an Imperial Chinese ironclad from the late 19th century SS Bandırma; Turkish passenger cargo vessel Jewel of Muscat; Omani 9th-century...
    50 KB (1,580 words) - 20:38, 13 August 2024
  • after the sinking of the Japanese transport, Shinyō Maru, by the USS Paddle, SS 263, on 7 September 1944". Submarine Sailor. Archived from the original on...
    148 KB (5,653 words) - 04:57, 24 September 2024
  • Gremski LH, Paludo KS, Bertoni da Silveira R, Gremski W, Mangili OC, Veiga SS (2008). "Biotechnological applications of brown spider (Loxosceles genus)...
    30 KB (3,061 words) - 14:56, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cave diving regions of the world
    attracts a large number of cave diving enthusiasts. Pawod Underwater Cave in Mactan Island, off the island of Cebu in the Central Philippines was discovered...
    40 KB (4,864 words) - 19:09, 28 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Australia–Philippines relations
    Aquino International Airport Terminal 2, Clark International Airport and Mactan-Cebu International Airport. The Philippines and Australia has an increasing...
    116 KB (13,392 words) - 07:29, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for USAT Don Esteban
    personnel and those patients not able to board the improvised hospital ship Mactan to field hospitals in Bataan. Don Esteban continued evacuating personnel...
    13 KB (1,389 words) - 23:49, 24 July 2022
  • Avon Minesweeper 1912-1944". Wrecksite. Retrieved 2016-11-10. "Guardfish (SS-217)". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval...
    212 KB (3,891 words) - 07:37, 23 October 2024
  • Intelligence". The Times. No. 29541. London. 14 April 1879. col B, p. 10. "SS Amboto (+1879)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 11 December 2021. "Wreck of a French...
    89 KB (1,733 words) - 19:06, 1 November 2024