Ship Island

Typhoon Camille split the once single island into 2 isolate islands in 1969. Ship Island is the aggregate name for two hindrance islands off the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, some portion of Gulf Islands National Seashore: East Ship Island and West Ship Island. West Ship Island is the site of Fort Massachusetts fabricated 1859– 66, as a Third System stronghold. Having the main profound water harbor between Mobile Bay and the Mississippi River, the island filled in as a key mooring for ships bearing pioneers, pilgrims, mariners, troopers, safeguards and intruders.

French pioneer Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville diagrammed Ship Island on 10 February 1699, which he utilized as a base of activities in finding the mouth of the Mississippi River. The French, Spanish, British, Confederate and Union banners have all flown over Ship Island. The island filled in as a state of migration to French provinces in the New World. A few settlers kicked the bucket upon landing in Ship Island, and their bodies were singed in a heater.