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Chronology of ships lost, and ships found.
Any and all books that reference a certain site, however briefly, are listed by code in the Bibliography column. See the Bibliography page for titles, authors, etc.
Note books with the suffix "C" are children's books.
Ship |
Lost |
Found |
Bibliography |
Notes |
wrecks in Lake Nemi |
? |
1440s/ 1932 |
Ba-1:C |
Two Roman ships sunk in Lake Nemi, unable to be salvaged in the 1440s. Lake drained in 1932, ships salvaged, burned during WWII. |
the Antikytherea Wreck |
70-80 BC |
October 1900 |
Ba-1:C, Pi-1, Sm-3:C |
Discovered off north coast of Antikythera, Greece by fishermen |
the Serce Limani Wreck |
AD 1000 |
1973 |
Pi-1, SM-3:C |
American archaeologist George Bass discovered in the bay of Serce Limani, southern Turkish coast. |
Sutton Hoo |
AD 625 |
1938 |
Pi-1 |
Viking burial ship, part of an Anglo-saxon burial ritual. |
Oseberg Burial Ship |
about AD 800 |
1904 |
Pi-1 |
Found in the Oslo Fjord in Norway |
the Sinan wreck |
about 1323 |
1975 |
Pi-1 |
Discovered by fisherman off the southwest coast of the Republic of Korea |
the Vung Tau wreck |
about 1722 |
mid-1980s |
Pi-1 |
Discovered by a fisherman off Han Bay, Canh, Vietnam |
the wreck of Ulbo Island |
December, 1417 |
? |
Pi-1 |
A galley, wrecked off Ulbo, an island near the Dalmatian coast. |
the Tobie |
October 19, 1593 |
? |
Pi-1 |
Wrecked about 12 miles to the south of Cape Spartel, Morocco |
the Flor de la Mar |
1511 |
1991 |
Pi-1 |
Wrecked on the eastern coast of Sumatra, in about 120 feet of water, near the Tebgah Reef, north of Tanjong Jambuair or Diamond Point. |
the Sao Paulo |
January 21, 1561 |
? |
Pi-1 |
Wrecked off the west coast of Sumatra. |
the Madre de Deus |
July 9, 1609 |
Location always known |
Pi-1 |
Sunk off the Fakunda Harbor, Nagasaki |
the Dourado |
January 25, 1830 |
? |
Pi-1 |
Wrecked on the rocks of Pedra Branca, then drifted south and south-southeast to end up on the coast of Bintan. |
the Tobermory galleon (San Juan de Sicilia) |
September 1588 |
Location always known |
Pi-1 |
A Spanish galleon, part of the Spanish Armada, sunk in Tobermory Bay, Scotland. |
the Girona |
Autumn, 1588 |
1967 |
Pi-1 |
Spanish galleass wrecked off the coast of Ireland. |
the Tortugas wreck |
1622? |
1960s |
Pi-1 |
The wreck is unidentified, but thought to be a ship from the Spanish fleet of 1622. The ship is being salvaged by Seahawk Deep Ocean Technology, Inc. |
the Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion |
September 20, 1638 |
1987 |
Pi-1 |
Ran aground on a reef off the southwest corner of Saipan, in the Northern Mariana Islands. |
the Vigo Bay wrecks |
October 22, 1702 |
Location always known |
Pi-1 |
Wreckage of Spanish, French, English and Netherlands ships lost during the Battle of Vigo Bay (War of the Spanish Succession.) |
the Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe |
August 24, 1724 |
1976 |
Pi-1 |
Grounded on a sandbank. Salvaged by the North American company, Caribe Salvage SA. |
the Conde de Tolosa |
August 24, 1724 |
1977 |
Pi-1 |
Wrecked in Samana Bay. Salvaged by the North American company, Caribe Salvage SA. |
the Las Cinque Chagas |
1594 |
? |
Pi-1 |
Burned off the Azores by privateer George Cumberland. |
the Reinera e Soderina |
1609 |
? |
Pi-1 |
Sunk 100 miles off the Greek island of Kithira (Cerigo). |
the Whydah |
April 26, 1717 |
1985 |
Bu-1, Cl-1, Cl-2, Pi-1 |
Sunk off the outer bar of Cape Cod. Found by Barry Clifford and his crew in 1985. |
the Batavia |
June 4, 1629 |
? |
Pi-1 |
Wrecked on Morning Reef, part of East Wallabi Island, one of the Houtman Abrolhos group of islands about 40 miles off the coast of Western Australia. |
the Geldermalsen |
January 3, 1752 |
1985 |
Pi-1 |
Wrecked on Admiral Stellingwerf Reef. In 1985 Englishman Michael Hatcher and his Swiss partner Max de Rahm located and salvaged the wreck. The salvaged cargo sold in 1986 for about $15 million. |
the Hartwell |
1787 |
Location always known. |
Pi-1 |
Sunk on a reef northeast of the island of Boa Vista in the Cape Verde Islands west of Africa. The wreck was salvaged by William and John Braithwaite. |
the Bonhomme Richard |
September 25, 1779 |
1976 |
Pi-1 |
Sunk roughly thre miles southeast of Flamborough Head, England.
In 1975, the Atlantic Charter Maritime Archaeological Foundation was formed to locate the Bonhomme Richard. In September 1976, the Richard was believed found, but no excavation was undertaken. |
the Orient |
2 |
3 |
Pi-1 |
|
the Vrouw Maria |
2 |
3 |
Pi-1 |
|
the Mentor |
2 |
3 |
Pi-1 |
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the Fame |
2 |
3 |
Pi-1 |
|
the Central America |
2 |
3 |
Pi-1 |
|
the General Grant |
2 |
3 |
Pi-1 |
|
the Royal Charter |
2 |
3 |
Pi-1 |
|
the Prins Frederik |
2 |
3 |
Pi-1 |
|
the Titanic |
April 15, 1912 |
3 |
Ba-1, Pi-1 |
|
the Egypt |
2 |
3 |
Pi-1 |
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the Andrea Doria |
2 |
3 |
Pi-1 |
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the HMS Edinburgh |
2 |
3 |
Pi-1 |
|
the City of Cairo |
2 |
3 |
Pi-1 |
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the I-52 |
2 |
3 |
Pi-1 |
|
the John Barry |
2 |
3 |
Pi-1 |
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the Sao Paulo |
2 |
3 |
Pi-1 |
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