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Knoxville, Tennessee
S.S. Sultana Memorial
This stone memorial pays tribute to a massive shipwreck which was sadly overshadowed by the death of John Wilkes Booth.
Chicago, Illinois
S.S. Eastland Memorial
This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."
Adamstown, Pitcairn Islands
Wreck of HMS Bounty
The watery grave of Captain Bligh's famous ship.
Micronesia
Ghost Fleet of Truk Lagoon
Tropical paradise strewn with hundreds of World War II wrecks.
Manitowoc, Wisconsin
Lake Michigan Triangle
Paranormal activity on the great lakes.
Wake Island
A remote coral island with a gristly history of shipwreck, battles, and a horrendous war crime.
Gaddani, Pakistan
Ship Breaking Yard of Gadani
The third largest ship breaking yard in the world has created an eerie shipping graveyard in southern Pakistan.
Portsmouth, England
Mary Rose
Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.
San Francisco, California
The Wreck of the King Philip
This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.
Turks and Caicos Islands
La Famille Express Wreck
The rusted remains of a victim of Hurricane Ike.
Cape May, New Jersey
Wreck of the S.S. Atlantus
The rusting remains are visible sticking out of the waters of the Delaware Bay.
Fraser Island, Australia
SS Maheno
WWI hospital ship lost in a cyclone turns up on the coast of Fraser Island, where she remains rusted and forgotten.
Bahamas
SS Sapona
A steamer run aground near Bimini lives a second life as a playground for scuba divers.
Iceland
Garðar BA 64
The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.
Balboa District, Panama
Wreck of the Sub Marine Explorer
The rusting hulk of a hand-powered, nearly 160-year-old submarine abandoned in 1869 due to the ravages of decompression sickness.
De Koog, Netherlands
Shipwreck and Beachcombing Museum
The history of sea-faring refuse and disaster is on cramped display in this Netherlands folk museum.
Hull, Massachusetts
City of Salisbury Shipwreck
A freighter full of exotic animals ends a harrowing voyage impaled on uncharted rocks in the Boston Harbor.
Permanently Closed
Nouadhibou, Mauritania
Bay of Nouadhibou Ship Graveyard
The world's largest ship graveyard is the product of decades of corruption.
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