In August 2000, the ship, which later owners had renamed the United Caribbean, was sunk off Boca Raton, Fla., to create an artificial reef.
And a federal appeals court in Virginia has now ruled that two ships sunk off that state's coast still, centuries later, belong to Spain.
West Nohno and were the last two ships sunk off Utah Beach when they went down on 11 June.
Over the next three days, another four Italian ships the steamships and and two small sailing vessels were sunk off Sicily.
Eight ships and four unfinished hulks had already departed, some smaller vessels were sunk off, and nine others sailed for England in the evening of 14 May.
In contrast to 1942, five of the ships sunk off the Australian east coast were travelling in escorted convoys at the time they were attacked.
Tregantle had sailed from Galveston, Texas, via Norfolk, Virginia, with a load of wheat for Hull, but was sunk off Lowestoft.
Manchester Commerce (1899), outward-bound for Quebec City was sunk off northwest Ireland on 26 October 1914, with the loss of 14 crew, becoming the first merchant ship to be sunk by a mine.
On 2 August, Bauer achieved his first success in command of UB-46 when the Japanese steamer Kohina Maru was sunk off Alexandria just short of her destination of Port Said.
Many ships, some reputedly laden with treasure, have been sunk off the beaches.
Some of the items were from the Maravillas, a Spanish galleon that had sunk off the Bahamas in 1656.
