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Mom's Rare Beach Find: a Historic Shipwreck

Hannah Damon spots wreck of 1923 tugboat during moment of calm in Lake Superior

(Newser) - A mom and son hanging out at a Wisconsin beach have rediscovered a shipwreck that's been hiding in plain sight for decades. Hannah Damon, who works at Camp Amnicon in South Range, Wisconsin, was wading along the Lake Superior shoreline with her 9-year-old when they suddenly spotted beams, cables,...

World's Oldest Shipwreck Found Off Coast of Turkey

Bronze Age vessel said to be up to 4.7K years old held ceramic jars still bearing ancient residue

(Newser) - A patch of seafloor off Turkey's Mediterranean coast has yielded what archaeologists say is the oldest shipwreck ever found. Dated to roughly 4,400 to 4,700 years ago—around the era the Great Pyramid was going up in Egypt—the 33-foot-long trade vessel lies nearly 100 feet under...

Nor'easter Uncovers Remains of 1884 Nantucket Shipwreck

Wooden beams with iron fastenings emerge on beach after powerful storm

(Newser) - A weekend storm didn't just churn up waves off Nantucket, it dragged a 19th-century shipwreck back into view. A nor'easter pounding the Massachusetts island on Saturday exposed a sizable section of timber and iron that experts say likely came from the Warren Sawyer, a three-masted vessel that ran...

7 Years After Mayday Call, Lost Boat Likely Found

Discovery made near Block Island wind farm

(Newser) - Seven years after a New Year's Day mayday call off Rhode Island, investigators say they've likely found the fishing boat that went missing, as well as human remains. The nonprofit Green Oceans reports divers located a wreck 92 feet down whose features match the 52-foot F/V Mistress, which...

Divers Find British Destroyer That Went Down in 1908

Instruments reveal clues about collision in English Channel

(Newser) - A British Navy destroyer that vanished after a deadly peacetime collision in 1908 has finally been found on the seafloor south of the Isle of Wight, Smithsonian Magazine reports. The torpedo boat destroyer HMS Tiger broke in two after cutting across the path of the cruiser Berwick during a nighttime...

Diver on Discovery Off Sicily: 'My Heart Stopped'
Diver on Discovery Off
Sicily: 'My Heart Stopped'
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Aug 15, 2026 11:15 AM CDT

Diver on Discovery Off Sicily: 'My Heart Stopped'

Shipwreck off Sicily holds hundreds of amphorae

(Newser) - Divers in Sicily have discovered a time capsule of ancient Mediterranean trade lying 150 feet below the surface. Acting on a tip from fishermen, Italy's cultural heritage police located a Roman-era shipwreck some three miles off the island's western coast, its cargo undisturbed for more than 2,000...

Diver Finds but Doesn't Yet Pour an 1864 Guinness in Shipwreck

Researchers may be able to re-create the bottle's original flavor

(Newser) - Guinness doesn't put a "best-by" date on its beer bottles, and in this case, it's just as well. Belgian diver and underwater photographer Stefan Panis said he recovered a bottle brewed in 1864 from a shipwreck off Dover, England, in 2025, rinsed it off, and spotted the...

US Revisits Sunken 'Hellship' for Near-Impossible Task
After 80 Years, Lost Americans
Might Finally Escape 'Hellship'
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Aug 2, 2026 2:00 PM CDT

After 80 Years, Lost Americans Might Finally Escape 'Hellship'

Divers search sunken Oryoku Maru off Philippines to identify lost POWs

(Newser) - A boot pulled from a corroded ship off the Philippine coast may be the most promising find yet in an 80-year effort to bring World War II prisoners home. The Wall Street Journal 's Mike Cherney follows a US mission at the wreck of the Oryoku Maru, a Japanese...

Research: 1600s Ship's Cargo Suggests a Global Supply Chain

Zircon analysis shows Batavia carried stone from multiple European quarries

(Newser) - Archaeologists have turned a notorious 17th-century shipwreck into a case study in early global logistics. New research on the Dutch East India Company vessel Batavia, which sank off Western Australia in 1629, finds that its stone cargo was tracing a complex European supply chain long before modern container shipping. Using...

Wreckage of US' Biggest WWI Naval Loss Found

US Coast Guard Cutter Tampa went down off coast of England, taking all 131 aboard with her

(Newser) - A US Coast Guard cutter that vanished in World War I's deadliest American naval combat loss has finally been found. A British dive team says it located the wreck of the USCGC Tampa roughly 50 miles off Cornwall in more than 300 feet of water, a discovery the Coast...

Warship That Went Down in 1801 in 'Great Battle' Is Found

Denmark's Dannebroge sank near Copenhagen after being attacked by Adm. Horatio Nelson

(Newser) - More than 200 years after being sunk by Adm. Horatio Nelson and the British fleet, a Danish warship has been discovered on the seabed of Copenhagen Harbor by marine archaeologists. Working in thick sediment and almost zero visibility 50 feet beneath the waves, divers are in a race against time...

Treasure Hunter Who Found 'Ship of Gold' Goes Free

But the gold Tommy Thompson found in 1988 remains unaccounted for after his decade in prison

(Newser) - A former deep-sea treasure hunter who made one of the great shipwreck discoveries in American history and spent more than a decade in jail after refusing to disclose the whereabouts of some of its missing gold coins is now out of prison, federal records show. Tommy Thompson , who in 1988...

Divers Finally Find 1877 Wreck, Aided by Wind Farm Surveyors

Divers locate City of Hobart steamer during offshore wind survey

(Newser) - A coal run that vanished in 1877 off the coast of Australia has finally turned up—after a modern hunt for wind power, not shipwrecks. The iron steamer City of Hobart left Newcastle, New South Wales, on July 21, 1877, with more than 600 tons of coal bound for Melbourne....

Ceramics Found on Shipwreck Upend Singapore's Origin Story

Cargo on Temasek Wreck shows that the island nation was a major trade hub during Yuan dynasty

(Newser) - Singapore's past just got a lot busier than the "sleepy fishing village" origin story suggests. A newly analyzed 14th-century shipwreck off its coast has yielded 3.9 tons of Chinese ceramics, offering the strongest maritime evidence yet that the island was a serious trading center centuries before the...

Groups Identify Wreck Found Near Site of Diver's Death

The Clough sank in Lake Erie in 1868, a year after it was built

(Newser) - Shipwreck hunters on Lake Erie have put a name to a wreck—and it's one tied to their own loss. The National Museum of the Great Lakes and Cleveland Underwater Explorers announced Wednesday that a sunken three-masted stone carrier found off Ohio has been identified as the Clough, a...

Missing 19th-Century Steamer Found in Lake Michigan

Wreck of 1872 Lac La Belle located off Wisconsin shore

(Newser) - A Lake Michigan mystery that captivated shipwreck hunters for decades has finally been put to rest, the Guardian reports. The long-lost passenger steamer Lac La Belle, which went down in a storm in 1872, has been located about 20 miles off the Wisconsin shoreline between Racine and Kenosha, according to...

The World's Richest Shipwreck 'Is Still Sitting There'

A new book looks at the search for the Spanish galleon San José, and what's happened since it was found

(Newser) - Cartagena's most famous relic is arguably a 300-year-old ship sitting two-thirds of a mile underwater—and at the center of a modern geopolitical brawl. The Spanish galleon San José, blown apart by the British off Colombia in 1708 while hauling gold, silver, and gems meant to bankroll a European...

400 Victorian Shoes Wash Ashore in Wales

Locals believe 19th-century boots may have come from a shipwreck

(Newser) - Victorian-era footwear is turning up in huge numbers on a stretch of Welsh coastline, and nobody can yet say exactly why. Volunteers restoring rock pools on Ogmore By Sea Beach in the Vale of Glamorgan have uncovered more than 400 old hobnailed boots in recent months, most of them black...

Watch That Stopped as Titanic Sunk Fetches Record Price

Pocket watch that belonged to Macy's co-owner Isidor Straus sells for $2.2M

(Newser) - An incredible relic from the Titanic surpassed expectations at auction. A pocket watch believed to have stopped the moment the ship went down sold for $2.2 million at auction in the UK on Saturday, reports the BBC . That's roughly a million more than expected, and a record for...

'Legend Lives on' 50 Years After Great Lakes Sinking

29 men died on the Edmund Fitzgerald

(Newser) - Spend enough time along the shores of Lake Superior, and it won't be long before there's some reminder of what happened "when the gales of November came early." Monday marks the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, the largest and most famous of...

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