During the War of 1812, residents of Rockport, Massachusetts, hurled rocks at British soldiers using their stockings as slings.

KEY WEST, Fla. – The U.S. Coast Guard has recovered the body of a 50-year-old woman from Rockport, Texas, who went missing Tuesday morning while diving the Vandenberg wreck off Key West. Her remains were taken by the U.S. Coast Guard to Coast Guard Station Key West. According to Linhardt, Fisher and her husband went out on a boat to the wreck Tuesday morning with two other people and a dive master. Linhardt said the dive master told authorities that he made several searches around the wreck until he was short on air. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Dive Team, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the U.S. Coast Guard and the Army Special Forces Underwater Operations School staff took part in the search for Fisher.