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A scan of the world's oldest astrolabe.
shipwrecks

Found: The Oldest Astrolabe Ever Discovered

It sank with a Portuguese ship in 1503.
Sarah Laskow October 25, 2017
Merman.
Fenwick Island, Delaware

Discoversea Shipwreck Museum

A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.
The SS Athenia in 1933.
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Found: The Wreck of the Very First Ship Sunk in World War II

The Athenia was torpedoed the day England and Germany went to war.
Sarah Laskow October 5, 2017
Lend a hand.
shipwrecks

Found: A Giant Bronze Arm From the Antikythera Shipwreck

The world's most intriguing shipwreck keeps giving up more secrets.
Sarah Laskow October 4, 2017
Cemetery of Anchors
Santa Luzia, Portugal

Cemetery of Anchors

Dead weights honor the dead of Portugal's fishing industry.
A 3D images of a medieval shipwreck, the first example of this kind of boat known outside of historical records.
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Found: An Incredibly Well-Preserved Medieval Shipwreck, Among Many More

The Black Sea wreck is the first of its kind ever discovered.
Sarah Laskow September 22, 2017
The wreck.
Hunstanton, England

Wreck of the Steam Trawler Sheraton

All that remains of the fishing-vessel-turned-warship is its weathered hull.
The Ohio's pilot house.
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Found: Two Shipwrecks Deep in a Shipwreck Graveyard

The Ohio and Choctaw sank in "Shipwreck Alley."
Sarah Laskow September 6, 2017
A 1798 engraving depicts <em>L'Astrolabe</em> and <em>La Boussole</em>.
islands

Solving the Mysterious Disappearance of Two 18th-Century French Frigates

A lost 1818 newspaper article may be a critical clue.
Natasha Frost August 31, 2017
The ruins of MV Creteblock.
North Yorkshire, England

Wreck of the MV Creteblock

The remains of the concrete ship can be seen during low tide.
The Cribs in winter.
Duluth, Minnesota

Uncle Harvey's Mausoleum

The watery grave of an impractical idea.
Thousands of bags of chips washed up on Hatteras Island.
Hatteras, North Carolina

Shipwrecked Doritos

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.
RMS <em>Lusitania</em>.
ships

Another Piece of Lusitania Has Been Rediscovered and Raised

The ill-fated ship's engine order telegraph was found, then lost, then found.
Kelsey Kennedy July 31, 2017
The Jane Hotel
New York, New York

The Jane Hotel

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.
SS Vina
Norfolk, England

SS Vina Shipwreck

The wreckage of an old coastal trading vessel is only visible at low tide.
The barge seen during sunset.
Castroville, California

Sauce Bros Barge

An abandoned boat that's been stranded mysteriously for decades.
A diver examines the timber Steve Libert believes to be part of the Griffon prior to its excavation in 2013.
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The White Whale for Great Lakes Shipwreck Hunters

Inside the consuming obsession with finding the 300-year-old Griffon.
Sarah Kramer, Bryce Gray, Lizz Giordano, and Anne Arntson May 30, 2017
Permanently Closed
Lewes, Delaware

Roosevelt Inlet Shipwreck

A wrecked ship dating back to the American Revolution was only recently discovered off the Delaware coast.