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Hidden for 136 years: Winter storms just unearthed a 19th-century ship on a New Jersey beach
February 01, 2026 9:18 am
Weeks of winter erosion uncovered the wreck of the ‘Lawrence N. McKenzie’, offering a rare glimpse into maritime history.
3 centuries after ‘Holy Grail of shipwrecks’, precious artefacts recovered from San José galleon
December 03, 2025 8:43 am
In June 1708, the 62-gun Spanish galleon San José, carrying treasure from South America to Europe, was sunk by British warships, killing its 600 crew and passengers.
Greek judge dismisses case against 9 Egyptians accused of causing a deadly shipwreck
May 21, 2024 6:40 pm
The decision by Presiding Judge Eftichia Kontaratou came shortly after the trial opened in the southern Greek city of Kalamata, and was greeted with cheers and applause from supporters of the defendants at the courthouse.
9 Egyptians go on trial in Greece over deadly shipwreck, as rights groups question process
May 21, 2024 12:27 pm
More than 500 people are believed to have gone down with the fishing trawler, which had been travelling from Libya to Italy. Following the sinking, 104 people were rescued — mostly migrants from Syria, Pakistan and Egypt — and 82 bodies were recovered.
41 dead in migrant shipwreck in central Mediterranean
August 09, 2023 10:39 pm
The survivors - three men and a woman from Ivory Coast and Guinea - said they were rescued by a cargo ship and then transferred onto an Italian coast guard vessel.
Greece scours shipwreck site; hundreds feared drowned in hold
June 15, 2023 4:26 pm
Government sources said chances of retrieving the sunken vessel, which had set off from the Libyan port of Tobruk, were remote, because the area of international waters where the incident occurred is one of the Mediterranean's deepest.
Over two dozen Pakistanis drowned in Italy migrant shipwreck -PM Shehbaz Sharif
February 27, 2023 12:32 pm
At least 81 people survived Sunday's accident, with 20 hospitalised including one person in intensive care, Italian authorities said.
That mysterious object on a Florida beach? It’s a shipwreck.
December 10, 2022 11:17 am
A team of archaeologists excavated a 60-foot trench along the row of timbers Monday and Tuesday. From its burial ground, the object revealed itself as a seafaring vessel, with curved wood, ribs and sand-logged joints.
Explorers find World War II Navy destroyer, deepest wreck discovered
June 27, 2022 2:00 pm
The US Navy destroyer, called Sammy B. Roberts, took part in the final phase of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944 and was identified on Wednesday broken into two pieces on a slope at a depth of 6,985 meters.
Last known slave ship is remarkably well reserved, researchers say
December 26, 2021 11:56 am
The Clotilda’s final voyage was undertaken illegally because Congress had banned the importation of enslaved people more than half a century earlier.
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