Navigation may be a nightmare near the Columbia River Bar, where the Pacific Ocean and Columbia River converge. Because of the 2,000 or more ships that have sunk here since…
Cape Gelidonya was one of the oldest shipwrecks off the coast of south-central Turkey in the late Bronze Age period. Having been a composition of copper and tin, wasn’t always…
An 18th-century Dutch East India Company cargo ship, Amsterdam started its maiden voyage from Texel to Batavia on 8th Jan 1749. Dutch East India Company (VOC) was established in 1602.…
“So our Heroe, Captain Teach, assumed the Cognomen of Black-beard, from that large Quantity of Hair, which, like a frightful Meteor, covered his whole Face, and frightened America more than…
Mary Rose, the ship, was launched in 1511, a carrack-type warship of King VII (the English Tudor Navy). It was successful in serving its purpose for 33 years in innumerable…
One of the largest surviving cargos ever recovered in the Mediterranean Sea was found on the Late Bronze Age shipwreck known as the Uluburun, which was located off Uluburun (Grand…
Monte Cristi Pipe Wreck is an archeological site situated off the north coast of Hispaniola in the Dominican Republic, near the border of Haiti in the Caribbean. It was initially…