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Czech tall ship La Grace fights her mortal combat in Spain

Fight to save Czech training ship La Grace, which stranded at night from 25 to 26 of October near Spanish Marbella, is now at full swing. Czech volunteers have carried out everything that could be dismantled to take the strain off the ship, a leader of salvage team Josef Dvorský informed us. „Due to the [...]

November 6, 2012 admin Pirates In the News, Shipwreck News 0

Tonga shipwreck may be pirate treasure ship Port-au-Prince

DIVERS in Tonga have discovered a shipwreck believed to be a pirate vessel that folklore says sank in the 19th century with a hold full of treasure, officials in the Pacific nation said Thursday. The Port-au-Prince, a British privateer, was attacked by local warriors in 1806 after arriving in Tonga and most of its crew [...]

August 9, 2012 admin Articles, Ships, Shipwreck News 0

Wreck of pirate ship found off the Scillies may hide a treasure trove

It is a swashbuckling tale of a time when no ship travelling the high seas was safe from the Pirate King of Scilly. In the mid-1600s, Captain John Mucknell’s name was a byword for looting and kidnap which the King of England himself had been urged to stamp out. Now the Western Morning News [...]

June 7, 2012 staveng42 Pirates In the News, Shipwreck News 0

17th century shipwreck found

Amateur divers have discovered a sunken ship they believe is a Swedish royal navy vessel that went down off Stockholm in 1660 with a cargo of gold and jewels, they said Thursday. The divers said they had not found the Resande Man’s precious cargo, which the ship was carrying to Poland as a gift [...]

June 2, 2012 staveng42 Shipwreck News 0

Black Swan Shipwreck Ordeal Comes to End

A fabulous sunken treasure recovered from a Spanish wreck in the Atlantic Ocean is flying back home from the United States, ending a five-year legal battle. The treasure was put aboard two Spanish military C-130 planes. They took off Friday from a Florida Air Force base with 595,000 silver coins and other gold aboard. They [...]

March 3, 2012 staveng42 Shipwreck News 0

Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship

ST. PAUL (WCCO) — Five years of hard work has finally brought pirates to the Science Museum of Minnesota. The exhibit — Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship — takes us back 300 years to tell the story of a real sunken pirate ship. The Whydah [...]

February 26, 2012 staveng42 Pirates In the News, Shipwreck News 0

Secrets of life on Newport’s medieval ship revealed

Next year marks the 10th anniversary of a remarkable discovery on the banks of the River Usk in Newport In the summer of 2002, thousands flocked to the banks of the River Usk in Newport, to see a piece of history. In the middle of a building site, the mud had been cleared to [...]

January 19, 2012 staveng42 Shipwreck News 0

Sir Francis Drake’s final fleet ‘discovered off the coast of Panama’

Treasure hunters claim they have discovered two ships from Sir Francis Drake’s fleet off the coast of Panama and believe his coffin could lie on the seabed nearby. His burial at sea in full armour and in a lead casket was designed to ensure that no one – but especially the Spanish – [...]

November 24, 2011 staveng42 Shipwreck News 0

Research team finds shipwreck off Sweden’s coast believed to be famous 17th century warship

STOCKHOLM — A shipwreck discovered in the murky waters of the Baltic Sea is believed to be a legendary 17th century warship whose captain went down with it in battle rather than surrender to the enemy. Deep Sea Productions, an underwater research team, said Wednesday it believes the 25-meter (82-feet) wooden wreck it found [...]

November 21, 2011 staveng42 Shipwreck News 0

Crews recover Blackbeard’s cannon

Crews recover Blackbeard’s cannon Blackbeard’s cannon salvaged from shipwreck off NC Updated: Thursday, 27 Oct 2011, 6:27 PM EDT Published : Wednesday, 26 Oct 2011, 5:52 AM EDT BEAUFORT, N.C. (AP/ WAVY) – Researchers have raised a 2,000-pound cannon from the wreck of the pirate Blackbeard’s ship, which has been on the ocean floor off [...]

October 29, 2011 staveng42 Shipwreck News 0