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- Endurance. Sunk 1915, Weddell Sea, Antarctica. Discovered at a depth of over 3,000m, Endurance was Ernest Shackleton’s ship for the ill-fated Trans-Antarctic expedition (1914-1916).
- Burgas. Sunk 400BC, Black Sea, Bulgaria. The Burgas shipwreck was a Greek trading vessel, dating from 400BC, and is currently the oldest intact shipwreck ever discovered.
- Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes. Sunk 1804, Cape Santa Maria, Portugal. Sunk by the British in 1804, the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes was a Spanish treasure ship that would cause legal and political repercussions over 200 years later, when discovered by a commercial diving team.
- Queen Anne’s Revenge. Sunk 1718, Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina, USA. Built in 1710, the Concord’s brief history as a British merchantman, French warship and slaver might have been enough to make this list in its own right.
- SS Edmund Fitzgerald
- HMHS Britannic
- HMS Curacoa
- The Fleet of Kublai Khan
- The Spanish Armada
- RMS Titanic
- RMS Empress of Ireland
- MS Estonia
- The Andrea Doria
- HMS Victory
The majestic SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American freighter. The ship was launched on 7th June 1958 and was the biggest vessel to ply on the Great Lakes of North America at that time. It carried a cargo of Taconite iron ore from mines near Minnesota to the ironworks in Ohio, Michigan and Detroit. She was a famous ship that broke its previous record...
Belonging to the Olympic class of steamships, the White Star Line vessel was the youngest sistership of the RMS Olympic and the RMS Titanic. It was constructed to be a passenger liner; however, she functioned as a hospital shipfrom 1915 until she finally sank in November 1916. She entered service before the First World War started. She was carefull...
HMS Curacoa was a light cruiser constructed for the Royal Navy. She functioned as a flagship most of the time. Assigned to the Atlantic Fleet in 1919, she was sent to the Baltic to support the British forces in their campaign during the Civil War in Russia. After encountering a naval mine, she suffered damage and was sent to be repaired. Later she ...
Kublai Khan’s lost fleet is one of the most famous shipwrecks of old times. Two Mongolian invasion fleet attempting to attack Japan was wrecked in storms in 1274 and 1281, killing tens of thousands of troops. Several artefacts belonging to these vessels were found centuries later on the seabed of the Imari Gulf. In October 2001, an entire shipwreck...
The Spanish Armada, a fleet of 130 ships on a mission to invade England in 1588, was disrupted by storms, and a large number of the Armada’s ships were wrecked on the coasts of Scotland and Ireland, killing around 5000 soldiers. Among the drowned were most of the soldiers and crewmembers of the 32-gun warship La Juliana, built near Barcelona in 157...
RMS Titanic, the most famous ship for never making her destination, was the largest cruise ship of its time. The Titanic was built in Ireland at the Harland and Wolff shipyard. It was considered to be the most developed ship of that era. However, the Titanic, famously described as ‘unsinkable,’ unfortunately sank after colliding against an iceberg ...
Canadian ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sank near the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River on 29 May 1914 after colliding with the Norwegian collier SS Storstad due to thick fog, killing 1012 people. The vessel was en route from Quebec City to Liverpool, with 1057 passengers and a crew of 420 abroad, when the ship went down in one of the worst dis...
The Estonia ship casualty in the Baltic Sea is one of the biggest maritime incidents in the recent past. The cruise ferry MS Estonia, built in the German shipyard Meyer Werft, was en route to Stockholm from the Estonian province of Tallinn when it sank on 28 September 1994. Over 800 people lost their lives in this horrifying incident, and most of t...
The Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria sank after colliding against the Swedish ship MS Stockholm in July 1956, killing 46 people. The vessel, which had 1,134 passengers and 572 crew members on board, was en route to New York City when it met with one of the most infamous maritime disasters in history. However, despite the severity of the incident, n...
The 100-gun ship of the Royal Navy, HMS Victory, was launched in 1737 and met with an accident in the English Channel in 1744. The sinking of HMS Victory, one of the worst British naval disasters in the English Channel, claimed the lives of more than 1,000 sailors. The ship disappeared in the Channel Islands, and for over 250 years, there was no si...
- HMS Vixen, Bermuda. Built in London as a Royal Navy armoured gunboat in 1864, HMS Vixen went on to serve a short military career, as the ship was found to be too slow for use in battle.
- Sweepstakes, Canada. This surprisingly beautiful schooner is an impressive sight, lying just 20 feet deep in crystal-clear waters in Fathom Five National Marine Park, in Ontario, Canada.
- Eduard Bohlen, Namibia. The middle of a desert isn’t the first place you expect to see a shipwreck, but there are numerous remains to be found along Namibia’s Skeleton Coast, the most famous of which is the Eduard Bohlen.
- Thistlegorm, Red Sea. When it was sunk in the Red Sea by two German bombers in 1941 (tragically killing nine men from the crew of 50), this British Merchant Navy ship was carrying a valuable haul of cargo that included guns, ammunition, trucks, motorbikes, aircraft parts and even locomotives.
- Endurance (1915) For over a century, the explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance was lost beneath the ice floes of the Weddell Sea in the Antarctic.
- Antikythera wreck (c. 70-60 BC) In 1900, sponge divers off the tiny Greek island of Antikythera uncovered an ancient shipwreck on the seabed. Subsequent archaeological investigations revealed that it was a Roman ship that sank between 70 and 60 BC during a voyage to Italy.
- The Mary Rose (1545) The Mary Rose was one of the most speedy and heavily armed warships in the English fleet. It sank in 1545 while it was leading the attack on a French invasion fleet in Portsmouth Harbour.
- Vasa (1628) When it was launched in 1628, Vasa was one of the most powerful warships in the world and was the jewel of the Swedish Navy. However, upon its maiden voyage, it had barely travelled 1 mile before it was struck by wind, rolled over and sank in front of the crowds on shore that had gathered to cheer its departure.
- Rachel Dinning
- RMS Titanic. "There is no danger that Titanic will sink. The boat is unsinkable and nothing but inconvenience will be suffered by the passengers." These infamous words – said by Philip Franklin, vice-president of the International Mercantile Marine Company, in 1912 – have gone down in history for just how grossly inaccurate they proved to be.
- The White Ship. Described by some as the ‘medieval Titanic’, the White Ship disaster was one of the most dramatic events in the Middle Ages in terms of how it rocked the English monarchy.
- The Mary Rose. Although many experts have attempted to solve the mystery of why Mary Rose sank, there is still debate about what caused her to capsize during the battle of Solent on 19 July 1545, sending around 500 men to their deaths.
- The Gloucester. Hot on the tails of Mary Rose fame is the Gloucester, which was first located in 2007 but only made public knowledge earlier this year in a bid to protect the treasure trove of goods contained within the wreck site.
The Endurance, the lost vessel of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, was found at the weekend at the bottom of the Weddell Sea. The ship was crushed by sea-ice and sank in 1915, forcing...
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