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Found After 500 Years, the Wreck of C. Columbus’s Flagship the Santa Maria More than five centuries after Christopher Columbus’s flagship, the Santa Maria, was wrecked in the Caribbean, archaeological investigators think they may have discovered the vessel’s long-lost remains – lying at the bottom of the sea off the north coast of Haiti. It’s likely to be one of the world’s most important underwater archaeological discoveries. Quote:
The underwater remains of what is thought to be Columbus’s flagship (Brandon Clifford) Christopher Columbus (Alamy) |
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Re: Found After 500 Years, the Wreck of C. Columbus’s Flagship the Santa Maria they could end up restoring it like they did with the 'mary rose' |
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Re: Found After 500 Years, the Wreck of C. Columbus’s Flagship the Santa Maria Santa Maria! Five more shipwrecks that came back from the deep Marine archaeologists think they have located the remains of Christopher Columbus's flagship, the Santa Maria, off the coast of Haiti. It joins an impressive list of other historic wrecks that have been found recently Queen Anne's Revenge Perhaps the most famous of all pirate ships began life in 1710 as a Royal Navy frigate called the Concord. Almost immediately after launch, she was captured by the French and converted into a slave ship, before being captured again by the pirate Ben Hornigold near Martinique. Hornigold put her under the command of one of his men, Edward Teach, soon to be known as Blackbeard. Just one busy year later, Blackbeard ran the ship aground off the coast of North Carolina, where it remained undisturbed until being rediscovered by the private research firm Intersal in 1996. Since then, many items have been salvaged, including a motley assortment of cannons, and the 1.4-tonne anchor. Quedagh Merchant Originally an Armenian-built Indian merchant vessel, this ship became famous when it was captured by Captain Kidd in 1698 near Kochi in the Arabian Sea. A privateer with instructions to loot enemy vessels, Kidd was subsequently considered a pirate, and hid the Quedagh Merchant before being captured and hung, after a sensational trial. For centuries, the ship's unknown location was a matter of legend, until it was at last found off Catalina Island in the Dominican Republic in 2007. Incredibly, it lay in shallow clear water close to the shore, and had never been touched. The Mary Rose It was never very far away – only in the Solent – but Henry VIII's beloved warship proved remarkably elusive after it sank in 1545, while leading an attack on the invading French fleet. A group of specialist salvors from Venice managed to reclaim some bits and pieces straight away, but soon afterwards it was forgotten. In 1836, the diving pioneers John and Charles Deane returned after a fishing net snagged on part of the wreckage, but they promptly lost the location again after recovering a few timbers and weapons. Finally, in 1971, the ship was found again, and then famously raised in 1980. It is now on display in Portsmouth. HMS Beagle In itself, the ship that launched the theory of evolution was unremarkable. Built as a basic 10-gun Royal Navy brig in 1820, it was soon refitted as a survey vessel, in which state it carried Darwin on his momentous voyage to South America in 1831. Years later, it began to be used as a Customs and Excise patrol boat, catching smugglers off the Essex coast, and was last heard of being sold for scrap (for £525) in 1870. Yet recent research appears to have found most of it buried under 12ft of mud in the river Roach. If correct, the Beagle could, in theory, be excavated and one day put on show. HMS Victory Nelson's flagship of the same name never sank, and today is in Portsmouth as a museum ship. Its predecessor, however, was one of the Royal Navy's greatest warships until it disappeared in a storm near the Channel Islands in 1744. In 2008, it was found by the underwater treasure-hunting company Odyssey Marine, which plans to raise the wreck in the near future. As their website says: "Research indicates that the Victory sank with a substantial amount of specie aboard." Specie means coins – specifically here gold and silver – which might today be worth as much as £500m. Pic - the Santa Maria |
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Re: Found After 500 Years, the Wreck of C. Columbus’s Flagship the Santa Maria Very interesting reading, thanks icheerthebull! ![]() |
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Re: Found After 500 Years, the Wreck of C. Columbus’s Flagship the Santa Maria Wow, how cool is this? ![]() |
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Re: Found After 500 Years, the Wreck of C. Columbus’s Flagship the Santa Maria Pretty cool, but it takes a special kind of cunt to note how friendly people are before taking them hostage and kidnapping them. ![]() |
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Re: Found After 500 Years, the Wreck of C. Columbus’s Flagship the Santa Maria Never know what they'll uncover and find. ![]() |
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