The National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA) is a private non-profit organization in the United States, based on a fictional organization from the novels of Clive Cussler, who also heads up the actual organization. NUMA is dedicated to "preserving maritime heritage through the discovery, archaeological survey and conservation of shipwreck artifacts." A nonprofit organization (abbreviated NPO, or non-profit or not-for-profit) is an organization whose primary objective is to support some issue or matter of private interest or public concern for non-commercial purposes. ... Clive Cussler (born July 15, 1931 in Alhambra, California) is an American adventure novelist. ... Sunset at sea Look up Sea in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Look up maritime in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A shipwreck is the remains of a ship after it has sunk or been beached as a result of a crisis at sea. ...

The real NUMA has discovered many sunken ships, including the CSS H. L. Hunley. CSS H. L. Hunley was a submarine of the Confederate States Navy that demonstrated both the advantages and the dangers of undersea warfare. ...

The Sea Hunters

Cussler and NUMA have helped produce a television series on underwater exploration called The Sea Hunters, which chronicles the discovery and subsequent removal and conservation of the CSS H. L. Hunley in 1995. The show also features a number of other shipwrecks in various international locations, and on occasion the failure to find anything at all, such as their attempts to find the Holland III prototype submarine. The show features Dr. Cussler and James Delgado, who is also an author and executive director of the Vancouver Maritime Museum. The show gives an in-depth explanation of the story of the shipwreck NUMA is exploring, including information about the ship's history and how it sank. NUMA's expeditions tend to focus on ships of American origin from the early 19th century to the early 20th century, especially on Union and Confederate ships of the American Civil War. Two books titled "The Sea Hunters" were authored by Clive Cusler about NUMA's explorations. 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Holland III was an early prototype submarine made by John Holland. ... German UC-1 class World War I submarine A model of Gunter Priens Unterseeboot 47 (U-47), German WWII Type VII diesel-electric hunter-killer (SSK) submarine Inside of the Argonaute, showing the typical obstructed, tiny space of a post-WWII diesel attack submarine. ... The Vancouver Maritime Musuem is a nautical museum on the Vancouver waterfront, just west of False Creek. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... United States is the current Good Article Collaboration of the week! Please help to improve this article to the highest of standards. ... Motto: Deo Vindice (Latin: With God As Our Vindicator) Anthem: God Save the South (unofficial) Dixie (popular) Capital Montgomery, Alabama February 4, 1861–May 29, 1861 Richmond, Virginia May 29, 1861–April 9, 1865 Danville, Virginia April 3–April 10, 1865 Largest city New Orleans February 4, 1861–May 1... Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederacy) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert Edward Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties 110,000 killed in action, 360,000 total dead, 275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action, 258,000 total...

Trustees

The NUMA Advisory Board of Trustees:

• Clive Cussler, Chairman
• Dirk Cussler, President
• Walter Schob
• Dana Larson
• William Thompson
• William Shea
• Michael Hogan
• Harold Edgerton (Deceased)
• Eric Schonstedt (Deceased)
• Clyde Smith
• Donald Walsh
• Peter Throckmorton (Deceased)
• Kenhelm Stott, Jr. (Deceased)
• Tony Bell (Deceased)
• Douglas Wheeler
• Wayne Gronquist
• Craig Dirgo
• Barbara Knight (Deceased)
• Robert Esbenson (Deceased)
• Ralph Wilbanks

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Current list of expeditions

NUMA has located or attempted to locate the following vessels and marine artifacts:

• HMS Acteon
• USS Akron
• CSS Alabama
• Alexander Nevski, a Russian steam frigate. Stranded off Thyboron in 1868 while carrying the crown prince.
• CSS Arkansas
• SMS Blücher, a German heavy cruiser. Sunk at the battle of Dogger Bank.
• Brutus, a schooner of the Republic of Texas Navy.
• Bonhomme Richard
• USS Carondelet
• RMS Carpathia
• CSS Chicora
• CSS Charleston
• USS Commodore Jones
• USS Cumberland
• USS Cyclops
• CSS Drewry
• HMS Defence, a British battle cruiser sunk during the battle of Jutland.
• HM Bark Endeavour
• CSS Florida
• CSS Fredericksburg
• CSS Gaines
• CSS General Beauregard
• CSS General Lovell
• General Slocum
• CSS General Thompson
• CSS Governor Moore
• Great Stone Fleet
• Greyhound
• HMS Hawke, a first-class British cruiser, sunk by the German U-boat U-9 in October 1914.
• USS Housatonic
• H. L. Hunley
• HMS Invincible, a British battle cruiser sunk at the battle of Jutland.
• Ivanhoe, a Confederate blockade runner.
• CSS Jamestown
• USS Keokuk
• L'Oiseau Blanc ("White Bird"), aircraft flown by Charles Nungesser and François Coli, who vanished on an attempted transatlantic flight in 1927
• Leopoldville, a Belgian troop transport torpedoed outside Cherbourg in 1944.
• Lexington
• Lost Locomotive of Kiowa Creek
• CSS Louisiana
• George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, explorers lost on Mount Everest in 1924.
• CSS Manassas
• Mary Celeste
• USS Milwaukee
• USS Mississippi
• New Orleans
• Norseman, a Confederate blockade runner.
• Northampton, a Confederate cargo ship.
• Odin, a Royal Swedish steamship that ran aground off Jutland in 1836 with the Swedish prime minister on board.
• USS Osage
• CSS Palmetto State
• USS Patapsco
• HMS Pathfinder, British scout cruiser.
• USS Philippe
• Platte Valley
• Raccoon, a Confederate blockade runner.
• Rattlesnake, a Confederate blockade runner.
• HMS Resolution
• CSS Richmond
• Ruby, a Confederate blockade runner.
• S-35, a German destroyer sunk during the battle of Jutland.
• Saint Patrick, a Confederate blockade runner.
• SS Savannah, first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
• HMS Shark, British destroyer sunk during the battle of Jutland.
• Stonewall Jackson, a Confederate blockade runner.
• Sultana, the worst ship disaster in number of lives lost in North America.
• Swamp Angel, famous cannon that fired on Charleston before exploding during the American Civil War.
• Torpedo Raft
• Twin Sisters (cannon), a pair of four-pounder cannon used against General Antonio López de Santa Anna in the battle of San Jacinto.
• U-12, sunk by HMS Ariel in 1915.
• U-20, German U-boat that sank the liner Lusitania in 1915. Ran aground on the Jutland coast in 1916, abandoned by crew and blown up by the Danes.
• U-21, German U-boat, sank in 1919.
• V-48, a German destroyer sunk during the battle of Jutland.
• USS Varuna
• CSS Virginia, a.k.a USS Merrimack.
• CSS Virginia II
• Virginia Navy Fleet sunk by Benedict Arnold
• USS Weehawken
• Waratah
• SMS Wiesbaden, German light cruiser sunk off Jutland.
• Zavala, a steamer in the Republic of Texas Navy.

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Two-masted fishing schooner A schooner (IPA: ) is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts. ... The first USS Bonhomme Richard, formerly Duc de Durae, was a east indiaman, a merchant ship built in France for the French East India Company in 1765, for service between France and the Orient. ... See also USS Carondelet (IX-136) USS Carondelet, an ironclad river gunboat, was built in 1861 by James Eads and Co. ... RMS Carpathia The RMS Carpathia was a Cunard Line transatlantic passenger steamship built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson. ... CSS Chicora, a Confederate ironclad ram, was built under contract at Charleston, South Carolina in 1862, by James M. Eason to John L. Porters plans, using up most of a $300,000 State appropriation for construction of marine batteries; Eason received a bonus for skill and promptitude. ... The CSS Charleston was a Confederate Navy ironclad ram during the American Civil War. ... The first USS Cumberland was a 50-gun sailing frigate of the United States Navy. ... Two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Cyclops, for the Cyclopes of Greek mythology, a race of giants with only one eye. ... CSS Drewry was a wooden gunboat with foredeck protected by an iron V-shaped shield. ... HMS Defence was a Minotaur-class armored cruiser of the Royal Navy, launched in 1907. ... HMS Invincible, one of Britains first battlecruisers Battlecruisers were large warships of the early 20th century. ... Combatants Royal Navy (Grand Fleet) Kaiserliche Marine (High Seas Fleet) Commanders Sir John Jellicoe, Sir David Beatty Reinhard Scheer, Franz von Hipper Strength 28 battleships, 9 battlecruisers, 8 heavy cruisers, 26 light cruisers, 78 destroyers 16 battleships, 5 battlecruisers, 6 pre-dreadnoughts, 11 light cruisers, 61 torpedo-boats Casualties 6... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... For other ships named Florida, see CSS Florida CSS Florida was a cruiser in the Confederate States Navy. ... CSS Fredericksburg was an ironclad gunboat of the Confederate States Navy during the U.S. Civil War. ... CSS Gaines was hastily constructed by the Confederates at Mobile, Alabama during 1861-62, from unseasoned wood which was partially covered with 2-inch iron plating. ... Wreckage of the General Slocum The General Slocum was a steamship launched in 1891. ... CSS Governor Moore had been Southern S. S. Companys Charles Morgan, named for the firms founder and built at New York in 1854 as a schooner-rigged, low pressure, walking beam-engined, seagoing steamer. ... U-boat is also a nickname for some diesel locomotives built by GE; see List of GE locomotives October 1939. ... Unterseeboot 9 has been the designation of two U-boats. ... 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... USS Housatonic was a screw sloop-of-war of the United States Navy, named for one of the rivers of New England which rises in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, and flows southward into Connecticut before emptying into Long Island Sound a little east of Bridgeport, Connecticut. ... Horace Lawson Hunley was a Confederate marine engineer druing the American Civil War. ... The fifth Invincible of the Royal Navy was a battlecruiser, the lead ship of her class of three, and the first battlecruiser to be built by any country in the world. ... Combatants Royal Navy (Grand Fleet) Kaiserliche Marine (High Seas Fleet) Commanders Sir John Jellicoe, Sir David Beatty Reinhard Scheer, Franz von Hipper Strength 28 battleships, 9 battlecruisers, 8 heavy cruisers, 26 light cruisers, 78 destroyers 16 battleships, 5 battlecruisers, 6 pre-dreadnoughts, 11 light cruisers, 61 torpedo-boats Casualties 6... CSS Jamestown, originally a passenger steamer, was built at New York City in 1853, and seized at Richmond, Virginia in 1861 for the Commonwealth of Virginia Navy. ... USS Keokuk, an experimental ironclad steamer, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the city in Iowa. ... Charles Nungesser (1892-1927) was a French aviator and adventurer who is best known as a rival of Charles A. Lindbergh in the race to be first to fly non-stop between New York and Paris. ... Transatlantic flight is any flight of an aircraft, whether airplane, balloon or other device, which involves crossing the Atlantic Ocean -- with a starting point in North America or South America and ending in Europe or Africa, or vice versa. ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Cherbourg is a city of Normandy, in northwestern France, in the Manche département, of which it is a sous_préfecture. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... Artists impression of the disaster // The Ship The steamship Lexington was built in 1835 at the Bishop and Simonson Shipyards in New York City. ... The CSS Louisiana was an ironclad ship of the Confederate States Navy built to aid in defense of the lower Mississippi from invasion of the Union Navy. ... George Herbert Leigh Mallory (18 June 1886 – June 1924) was a British mountaineer. ... Andrew Sandy Irvine was one of the mountaineers (the other being George Mallory) who attempted to make the first ascent of Mount Everest. ... Everest redirects here. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... CSS Manassas, formerly the steam propeller Enoch Train, was built at Medford, Massachusetts, by J. O. Curtis in 1855. ... A painting of the Amazon (later renamed Mary Celeste) by an unknown artist. ... The first USS Milwaukee, a double turreted river monitor, was launched by James B. Eads at Carondelet, MO, 4 February 1864; and commissioned at Mound City, IL, 27 August 1864, Acting Volunteer Lieutenant James W. Magune in command. ... USS Mississippi, a sidewheel steamer, was the first ship of the United States Navy bear that name. ... Paddle steamers - Lucerne-Switzerland Left: original paddlewheel from a paddle steamer on the lake of Lucerne. ... Jutland Peninsula Jutland (Danish: Jylland; German: Jütland; Frisian Jutlân; Low German Jötlann) is a peninsula in northern Europe that forms the only non-insular part of Denmark and also the northernmost part of Germany, dividing the North Sea from the Baltic Sea. ... Charles Darwin 1836 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... CSS Palmetto State, an ironclad ram, was built by Cameron and Co. ... The light cruiser HMS Pathfinder had the unhappy distinction of being the first ship ever to be sunk by a torpedo fired by submarine. ... Resolution and Adventure with fishing craft in Matavai Bay by William Hodges, painted 1776, shows the two ships at anchor in Tahiti in August 1773. ... CSS Richmond, an ironclad ram, was built at Gosport (Norfolk) Navy Yard to the design of John L. Porter with money and scrap iron collected by the citizens of Virginia, whose imagination had been captured by the ironclad CSS Virginia. ... The Somua S-35 was a French cavalry tank of the Second World War. ... USS Lassen, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer In naval terminology, a destroyer (French: contre-torpilleur, German: Zerstörer, Spanish: destructor, Italian: cacciatorpediniere) is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet or battle group and defend them against smaller, short-range attackers... Combatants Royal Navy (Grand Fleet) Kaiserliche Marine (High Seas Fleet) Commanders Sir John Jellicoe, Sir David Beatty Reinhard Scheer, Franz von Hipper Strength 28 battleships, 9 battlecruisers, 8 heavy cruisers, 26 light cruisers, 78 destroyers 16 battleships, 5 battlecruisers, 6 pre-dreadnoughts, 11 light cruisers, 61 torpedo-boats Casualties 6... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Combatants Royal Navy (Grand Fleet) Kaiserliche Marine (High Seas Fleet) Commanders Sir John Jellicoe, Sir David Beatty Reinhard Scheer, Franz von Hipper Strength 28 battleships, 9 battlecruisers, 8 heavy cruisers, 26 light cruisers, 78 destroyers 16 battleships, 5 battlecruisers, 6 pre-dreadnoughts, 11 light cruisers, 61 torpedo-boats Casualties 6... The steamboat Sultana was a Mississippi River paddlewheeler which was destroyed in an explosion on 27 April 1865, the greatest maritime disaster in United States history. ... Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederacy) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert Edward Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties 110,000 killed in action, 360,000 total dead, 275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action, 258,000 total... Antonio López de Santa Anna Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón (21 February 1794 – 21 June 1876) was a Mexican soldier and military dictator who influenced early Mexican politics and government, first fighting against independence from Spain, and... Combatants Mexico Texas Commanders Antonio López de Santa Anna Sam Houston Strength about 1,200 910 Casualties 630 killed, 208 wounded, 730 captured 9 killed, 30 wounded The Battle of San Jacinto, fought on April 21, 1836, was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Unterseeboot 20 (U-20) has been the designation of two submarines of the German Navy. ... Roman province of Lusitania, 120 AD Lusitania, an ancient Roman province approximately including current Portugal (except for the area between the rivers Douro and Minho) and part of modern day western Spain (specifically the present autonomous community Extremadura), named after the Lusitani or Lusitanian people. ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Combatants Royal Navy (Grand Fleet) Kaiserliche Marine (High Seas Fleet) Commanders Sir John Jellicoe, Sir David Beatty Reinhard Scheer, Franz von Hipper Strength 28 battleships, 9 battlecruisers, 8 heavy cruisers, 26 light cruisers, 78 destroyers 16 battleships, 5 battlecruisers, 6 pre-dreadnoughts, 11 light cruisers, 61 torpedo-boats Casualties 6... The first USS Varuna was a screw gunboat in the United States Navy. ... CSS Virginia was an ironclad warship of the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War (built using the remains of the scuttled USS Merrimack). ... CSS Virginia II, an ironclad ram, was laid down at the Confederate Navy Yard at Richmond, Virginia in 1863. ... Benedict Arnold Benedict Arnold (January 14, 1741 – June 14, 1801) was a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. ... The Waratah, sometimes referred to as Australias Titanic, was a 500 foot steamer. ... 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The fictional NUMA

In the Dirk Pitt series of adventure novels by Clive Cussler, NUMA is a government organization. The fictional NUMA is devoted to oceanic exploration and investigation, and is the agency employing the main characters in the series of books. Its headquarters is a 30 story building located on the east bank of the Potomac river. It overlooks the Capitol building in Washington, DC. The agency is comprised of over five thousand employees and scientists that often work around the clock on expeditions. It is often referred to as a marine version of NASA. Dirk Pitt is a fictional character, the protagonist of a series of bestselling adventure novels written by Clive Cussler. ... A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative in prose. ... Clive Cussler (born July 15, 1931 in Alhambra, California) is an American adventure novelist. ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United...

The fictional NUMA is headed by the character Admiral James Sandecker, with Rudi Gunn as second in command, although Dirk Pitt is eventually asked to take over when Sandecker has political aspirations regarding the vice-presidency. In the Dirk Pitt adventure novels by acclaimed novelist Clive Cussler, Admiral James Sandecker is the Director of NUMA, the National Underwater and Marine Agency. ... Rudi Gunn is a character in the Dirk Pitt adventure novels by acclaimed novelist Clive Cussler. ...

Housed inside this headquarters is one of world's most advanced computer systems which contains almost every known piece of information, both current and ancient, about the sea. The computer center takes up the entire 10th floor but is in an "open" setting with a raised circular platform that uses a hologram to display Hiram Yeager's computer's emodiment, named Max, at its center. There are no cubicles. Hiram Yeager designed, runs and maintains the computer lab. Hiram Yeager is a character in the Dirk Pitt adventure novels by novelist Clive Cussler. ...

External links

• NUMA Official website