Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Portland is a shipwreck lying 460 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean near Gloucester, Massachusetts. The S.S. Portland was built by New England Shipbuilding Co. in 1889. The ship gained world fame when it brought the first miners out from the Klondike gold rush fields in Canada, arriving in Seattle, Washington on July 17, 1897 with over a ton of gold in its cargo, which ignited the 1897-98 gold rush. It sank in the Portland Gale of 1898 off of Cape Ann, killing all 192 people aboard. The shipwreck site was located in 1989 by John Fish and Arnold Carr of American Underwater Search and Survey. The find was confirmed in 2002 by a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration expedition that used ROV's to photograph the wreck. The wreck was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. The site was visited by divers in 2008.. }
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- Portland_(shipwreck) abstract "The Portland is a shipwreck lying 460 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean near Gloucester, Massachusetts. The S.S. Portland was built by New England Shipbuilding Co. in 1889. The ship gained world fame when it brought the first miners out from the Klondike gold rush fields in Canada, arriving in Seattle, Washington on July 17, 1897 with over a ton of gold in its cargo, which ignited the 1897-98 gold rush. It sank in the Portland Gale of 1898 off of Cape Ann, killing all 192 people aboard. The shipwreck site was located in 1989 by John Fish and Arnold Carr of American Underwater Search and Survey. The find was confirmed in 2002 by a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration expedition that used ROV's to photograph the wreck. The wreck was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. The site was visited by divers in 2008.".