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• Navy launches 5th trip to find John Paul Jones' ship
  By Earl Kelly - Home Town Annapolis.com Four Naval Academy midshipmen and a professor, along with Navy scientists, are getting the chance of a lifetime as they head to the North Sea on Wednesday to search for the remains of Capt. John Paul Jones' ship, Bonhomme Richard. This search for one of the most famous ships of the American Revolution will combin […]
• Purported Franklin Expedition records found
  From CBC News An Inuit family says a box that was hidden for over 80 years in the Arctic contains documents linked to the doomed Franklin Expedition.Over the weekend, the Porter family in Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, dug up the small box with the help of an archeologist."We knew we were looking for a wooden box, not a particularly large box. We worked our way […]
• Traces of Kolchak’s gold found ?
  By Elena Kovachich - The English.ruvr.ru Baikal, the deep-diving manned vehicle Mir-2 has discovered a strange metal thing resembling a bar of gold. Unfortunately, the mini-submarine failed to reach it. Using only video recordings, experts will now try to determine whether it can really be the legendary gold of the Russian Empire. Since the first stage of t […]
• Shipwrecks reveal shift to modern shipbuilding
  From RPM Nautical Foundation By Clara Moskowitz - Live Science Three recently discovered shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea could give archaeologists new insights into the transition between medieval and modern shipbuilding. The remains of the three craft — all dating from between 1450 and 1600 — were found in the straits between Turkey and the Greek isla […]
• Search begins for British explorer's lost ships
  Wally and Andrew Porter in Gjoa Haven. Photo: Daniel Scott By Lucy Hyslop and Daniel Scott - Telegraph Not only has the Canadian government sent a Parks Canada icebreaker into a three-week expedition into the waters near Gjoa Haven, but local Inuit in the remote Arctic hamlet are also touting the possible excavation of some alleged lost journals. Organiser […]
• Famous ship: New search
  From Filey Mercury The US and French navies are to join the latest expedition to search for the remains of one of America's first and most famous warships, sunk off Filey Bay in 1779.The American-based Ocean Technology Foundation believe it could be their best chance yet to find the Bonhomme Richard as the two navies provide state-of-the-art sonar syst […]
• Lost gold of the Whites found in Baikal
  By Andy Potts - The Moscow News Submarines in the depths of Baikal may have solved one of the great mysteries of the Civil War.The long-lost gold of White commander Alexander Kolchak could be within reach of submersibles exploring the lake as part of a scientific mission.Environmentalists working with the mission told journalists: “Deep-sea vehicles found r […]
• Archaeologists attack BP’s drilling plans
  By Emily Sharpe - The Art Newspaper From Greek and Roman shipwrecks to 20th-century warships; from ancient streets with intact buildings and mosaics to amphorae and ingots, the Mediterranean is a sub-aqueous treasure trove. So BP’s plans to drill exploratory oil wells off Libya has raised serious concerns among archaeologists, historians and heritage preser […]
• 'I've found Kingsford-Smith's plane': Damien Lay
  By Steve Creedy - The Australian After weathering typhoons, carbon-dioxide poisoning and sceptics, filmmaker Damien Lay is convinced he has found the Lady Southern Cross. Lay is planning to take family members to the site in November for the 75th anniversary of the disappearance of famed Australian aviator Charles Kingsford-Smith.Kingsford-Smith disappeared […]
• Sunken ship may contain piece of Bladensburg history
  By Daniel Leaderman - Gazette.net A piece of Bladensburg history may rise again after lying at the bottom of the Patuxent River for two hundred years.Over the next two years, archeologists will work near Upper Marlboro to excavate the wreck of a ship believed to be the USS Scorpion, part of an American flotilla that clashed with the British Navy just prior […]
• Divers steal from Holland 5 submarine off Sussex coast
  From BBC News Thieves have targeted a historically important submarine wreck lying in the English Channel, it has emerged.English Heritage said divers stole the torpedo tube hatch of the Holland 5, which sank six miles off Eastbourne in East Sussex in 1912.The theft was discovered during a licensed dive by the Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS) in June and […]
• Search is heating up for Bonhomme Richard
  By Joe Wojtas - The Day.com The Ocean Technology Foundation will launch its fifth expedition later this summer to search for the wreck of John Paul Jones' Revolutionary War ship the Bonhomme Richard in the North Sea.The two-week expedition may provide the best chance yet to find the famed ship off the northeast coast of England as the U.S. and French n […]
• Nautical disaster - First and only city shipwreck recalled
  By Cam Fuller - The Star Phoenix Saskatoon's most famous (OK, and only) shipwreck is finally a film. The Last Steamship, a documentary on the sinking of the S.S. City of Medicine Hat, has its maiden screening on Friday at the Broadway Theatre. "This seems to be a story that so many people don't know about," says director Leanne Schinkel. […]
• Efforts to keep clipper ship rejected
  By Andy Philip - Times of Malta A bid to keep the world’s oldest passenger clipper ship in Britain was rejected in favour of proposals to send it to Australia. The 145-year-old City of Adelaide, currently resting on a slipway on the west coast of Scotland, faced being broken up for display in a museum.Campaigners from Sunderland, where the ship was built, w […]
• Titanic wreckage to be raised digitally by new 3D map
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• Shipwrecked Madeira to be sold at auction
  By Deidre Woollard - Luxist From the depths of the ocean to your wine cellar. Spectrum Wine Auctions, Southern California's leading auction house of fine and rare wine, will hold its first sale of the fall 2010 auction season on September 24 including a bottle of shipwrecked Madeira wine dating to the 1800s. The bottle, which is estimated at $1200 was […]
• Historic Champagne Cargo Retrieved from Sea Bed
  From Yle.fi A group of Swedish divers have begun lifting to the surface a sunken consignment of champagne dating from the 1700’s from the seabed in the Åland Islands. Diving for the liquid treasure of around 80 champagne bottles started last week. The bottles are located in the hull of a vessel that sunk sometime in the eighteenth century. Both the vessel a […]
• Russian Mini-Sub Finds Possible Czarist Gold
  From VOA News Russian authorities say a mini-submarine plumbing the depths of Lake Baikal has found several shiny metal objects that could be evidence of the legendary Czarist gold lost nearly a century ago during the country's civil war.Explorers discovered the metal objects - described as resembling gold bullion - 400 meters below Lake Baikal's […]
• Dark secret of underwater treasure
  From RT (first published 1st of May, 2010) After a decade of painstaking underwater searching, the wreck of a Soviet World War II submarine has been found in the Baltic Sea.The vessel went down with its fifty-man crew in 1940 after being sunk by a mine laid by Finland. The relatives of those who died say it is a matter of honor to establish what really happ […]