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Santa Luzia, Portugal
Cemetery of Anchors
Dead weights honor the dead of Portugal's fishing industry.
shipwrecks
Found: An Incredibly Well-Preserved Medieval Shipwreck, Among Many More
The Black Sea wreck is the first of its kind ever discovered.
Hunstanton, England
Wreck of the Steam Trawler Sheraton
All that remains of the fishing-vessel-turned-warship is its weathered hull.
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Found: Two Shipwrecks Deep in a Shipwreck Graveyard
The Ohio and Choctaw sank in "Shipwreck Alley."
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Solving the Mysterious Disappearance of Two 18th-Century French Frigates
A lost 1818 newspaper article may be a critical clue.
Whitby, England
Wreck of the MV Creteblock
The remains of the concrete ship can be seen during low tide.
Duluth, Minnesota
Uncle Harvey's Mausoleum
The watery grave of an impractical idea.
Hatteras, North Carolina
Shipwrecked Doritos
The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.
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Another Piece of Lusitania Has Been Rediscovered and Raised
The ill-fated ship's engine order telegraph was found, then lost, then found.
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.
King's Lynn, England
SS Vina Shipwreck
The wreckage of an old coastal trading vessel is only visible at low tide.
Castroville, California
Sauce Bros Barge
An abandoned boat that's been stranded mysteriously for decades.
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The White Whale for Great Lakes Shipwreck Hunters
Inside the consuming obsession with finding the 300-year-old Griffon.
Permanently Closed
Lewes, Delaware
Roosevelt Inlet Shipwreck
A wrecked ship dating back to the American Revolution was only recently discovered off the Delaware coast.
Florida
Alligator Reef Lighthouse
This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.
Kansas City, Missouri
Treasures of the Steamboat Arabia
Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.
Puerto de MazarrĂ³n, Spain
Phoenician Ships of MazarrĂ³n
Two 2,500-year-old Phoenician boats found on the coast of Spain, giving incredible insight into the ancient maritime traders.
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Divers in Italy Are Searching for Caligula’s Last, Lost Pleasure Ship
The Roman emperor's prized boats boasted marble, gold, and running water.
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