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cnn.com —
The hull of a ship likely made in the 1700s was discovered at the World Trade Center site Tuesday. Archaeologists say that it probably was sunk there in the effort to add land to Manhattan in the early 19th century. Molly McDonald, an archaeologist with...
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youtube.com —
The L.R. Doty 300-foot-long steamship that sank in 1898 in a violent Lake Michigan storm has been found off the Milwaukee-area shoreline. Divers say the intact vessel appears to have been perfectly preserved by the cold fresh waters.
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kmtr.com —
The ship "Helen E” has made a brief appearance on the southern Oregon coast. Locals may remember the World War II U.S. Navy submarine Chaser. It was grounded on the beach in 1951, but low tides and recent storms off the North Spit in Coos Bay pulled...
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abc.net.au —
The crew on board Seahorse Spirit found the Centaur 30 nautical miles off the southern tip of Moreton Island in south-east Queensland at the weekend. The Centaur was sunk by the Japanese in 1943, killing 268 people. The search ship arrived back in...
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news.nationalgeographic.com —
Recently photographed for the first time, the gold rush-era sternwheeler A.J. Goddard was discovered sitting upright and remarkably intact in a lake in the Yukon Territory, Canada, in July 2008.
Like an early 20th-century snapshot, "everything is just...
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news.bbc.co.uk —
Sailors often whisper of monster waves when ships sink mysteriously but, until now, no one quite believed them.
As part of a project called MaxWave - which was set up to test the rumours - two Esa satellites surveyed the oceans.
During a three...
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cnn.com —
On Wednesday a long-awaited report on the sinking of the Sydney II ended the mystery that began when it met its fate, November 19, 1941.
Made to look like a cargo ship, the German vessel was in fact a military raider that fired on the Australians when...
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news.bbc.co.uk —
Underwater archaeologists in Italy have discovered the wrecks of five ancient Roman ships in the Mediterranean, with their cargo still largely intact.
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buffalonews.com —
For as long as 175 years, a shipwrecked schooner that had once sailed the Great Lakes, bringing grain and other goods to and from a just-burgeoning Buffalo, has laid virtually unscathed at the bottom of Lake Erie just west of Dunkirk.
A group of...
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palltimes.com —
"On Saturday, Shipwreck discoverer Jim Kennard told the standing-room-only crowd at the 2009 Great Lakes Underwater Conference of his most recent and extremely rare find of a dagger board schooner at the bottom of Lake Ontario."
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numismaster.com —
"HMS Victory sank in the English Channel on Oct. 4, 1744, taking 1,150 sailors and four tons of Portuguese gold to the bottom of Davy Jones' locker. About 200,000 gold coins are believed to be part of the treasure, whose sinking caused a major...
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edition.cnn.com —
Deep-sea explorers say they have solved "one of the greatest mysteries in naval history" with the discovery of what was "the world's mightiest and most technically advanced warship" when it sank in 1744.The HMS Victory -- the predecessor to a historic...
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