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Portsmouth, England

Hatch the Mary Rose Dog

Discovered on a shipwreck after more than 400 years, this Renaissance ratter tells a very waggly tale.
The Francisco Morazan is an off-shore wreck visible from South Manitou Island.
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Michigan Archaeologists Want Your Help Scouting for Shipwrecks

Look, document, but please don't touch.
Jessica Leigh Hester May 21, 2020
The <em>Stickleback</em>'s stern, resting two miles under the sea.
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Found: The Cold War Wreck of a World War II Submarine

A training exercise in 1958 sent the USS Stickleback to the ocean floor.
Isaac Schultz March 26, 2020
The Old Lifeboat House
Lytham, England

Old Lifeboat House

This former lifeboat house now used by a funeral service was the site of a 19th-century boating tragedy.
The house sits on a thin sandbar off the Florida coast.
Stuart, Florida

Gilbert’s Bar House of Refuge

In a time before lifeguards, this house was a sanctuary for the shipwrecked.
Lift bags were used to position the cannons artfully.
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Reconstructing a Shipwreck Site as an Underwater Exhibit

The Dominican Republic's fifth Living Museum in the Sea has just opened.
Isaac Schultz December 11, 2019
Cemitério de navios - The Ship Cemetery
Panguila, Angola

Cemitério de Navios (The Ship Cemetery)

Abandoned ships along a deserted beach feel like the set of a post-apocalyptic thriller.
One wreck closely resembles <em>Vasa</em> in size and shape, leading to speculation that it may be <en>Äpplet</em>, its sister ship.
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Found: 17th-Century Warships at the Bottom of a Swedish Channel

They could be related to the famous, ill-fated "Vasa."
Isaac Schultz November 11, 2019
On the move again!
ships

Some Ships Keep Sailing Even After They're Wrecked

A century-old iron scow is inching closer to the brink of Niagara Falls.
Jessica Leigh Hester November 8, 2019
The Northern Lights over the wreck site off the northwest coast of Iceland.
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Virtually Tour a Dutch Smuggler's Shipwreck in Iceland

Without jumping in the frigid North Atlantic.
Isaac Schultz October 17, 2019
Belfast Titanic Memorial Garden.
Belfast, Northern Ireland

Belfast Titanic Memorial Garden

The only monument to name all of the passengers and crew who died on the RMS Titanic.
The wreckage.
Edgartown, Massachusetts

Mysterious Chappaquiddick Shipwreck

The scarce remains of a sunken ship peek out from the sand on East Beach.
The Ferryland Lighthouse.
Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador

Ferryland Lighthouse

This historic lighthouse has been reincarnated as the perfect picnic place.
D.T. Sheridan Shipwreck
Monhegan, Maine

D.T. Sheridan Shipwreck

The steel hull of a wrecked tug rests on Lobster Cove on Monhegan Island’s rocky southeastern shore.
Dimitrios.
Laconia, Greece

Dimitrios

This wrecked ghost ship has been rusting on a Greek beach since the 1980s.
The wrecks are visible from drones too.
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The Short Life and Strange Death of Maryland's Ghost Fleet

The long-languishing ships of Mallows Bay are getting a second life as a National Marine Sanctuary.
Jessica Leigh Hester July 16, 2019
In 1912, Ella White's light-up cane was considered cutting-edge technology.
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For Sale: A Titanic Survivor's Light-Up Cane

Ella White's battery-powered crutch guided her lifeboat to safety in 1912—and is now at the center of a family feud.
Sabrina Imbler July 15, 2019
The HNLMS K XVII submarine in its prime, opposite a Dutch minelayer.
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Two Dutch Shipwrecks From WWII Just Vanished Near Malaysia

They were probably plundered by looters hunting for scrap metal.
Sabrina Imbler July 10, 2019