reader comments 43 with Magellan and Atlantic Productions deployed two submersibles nicknamed Romeo and Juliet to map every millimeter of the wreck. Magellan and Atlantic Productions deployed two submersibles nicknamed Romeo and Juliet to map every millimeter of the wreck. The RMS Titanic sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic in 1912, but the ..
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reader comments 36 with Share this story [embedded content] Ironton, a late 19th century shipwreck, has been located in NOAA’s Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. In 1894, a schooner barge called Ironton collided with a Great Lakes freighter called Ohio in Lake Huron’s infamous “Shipwreck Alley.” Ohio‘s wreck was found in 2017 by an expedition ..
Enlarge / Would you pay $95,000 for these jeans? They were salvaged from the wreck of the SS Central America, which sank in 1857. Holabird Western Americana Collections reader comments 24 with 0 posters participating Share this story A pair of men’s jeans recovered from the wreckage of a 19th-century steamer ship fetched an eye-popping ..
reader comments 75 with 32 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] In 1682 a royal ship carrying the heir to the English throne ran aground and sank off the Norfolk Coast. The wreck was discovered by two brothers in 2007 and has remained a closely kept secret until now. At 5:30 am on May ..
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Enlarge / “We did not find Clotilda. I don’t think Clotilda was ever lost to some,” said Delgado. Emma Langdon Roche, publisher: New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1914. reader comments 58 with 44 posters participating Share this story The state of Alabama has filed an Admiralty claim for ownership of the wreckage of the last ..
Enlarge / Archaeologists use a portable X-ray fluorescence detector to analyze 900-year-old artifacts. Xu et al. 2019 reader comments 8 with 8 posters participating Share this story Sometime in the late 12th century CE, a merchant ship laden with trade goods sank off the coast of Java. The 100,000 ceramic vessels, 200 tons of iron, ..
Enlarge (credit: Corr et al. 2018) In 1545, freshly refitted to carry a greater number of heavy cannon, the warship Mary Rose sailed into battle against a French fleet north of the Isle of Wight. The debate over what happened next is still heated, but the most accepted version is that the added weight of ..