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A ship of the Spanish Armada that was driven aground at Streedagh Strand, then in Cairbre, now County Sligo. La Lavia Spain: 1588 A ship of the Spanish Armada that was driven aground at Streedagh Strand, then in Cairbre, now County Sligo. Laurentic United Kingdom: 25 January 1917 An armed merchantman that struck two naval mines off Lough Swilly
The cargo ship was wrecked 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) off Cape Mayor, near Santander, Spain. [1] She sank on 3 January, [2] all crew were rescued. [3] Sylvabelle France: The two-masted schooner collided with Ilse ( Sweden) in the English Channel off St Ives, Cornwall, United Kingdom. All five crew were rescued by Cape Horn ( United Kingdom) and ...
Even at her reduced speed, the ship far exceeded the speed of an U-boat (16 knots on the surface, 9 knots submerged), requiring the ship to pass extremely near a waiting submarine to be attacked. Lusitania departing New York, 1 May, in the last known photograph of her before her sinking
Underwater archaeologists dug under 20 feet of sand and rock off the coast of Sicily and found a 2,500-year-old shipwreck. Researchers date the find to either the fifth or sixth century B.C. Six ...
An underwater excavation of a 2,500-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Sicily has unveiled prehistoric tools and anchors, providing evidence of the trade between Italy and Greece. The shipwreck ...
A research team in New Jersey has discovered the remains of a steamship that went missing in 1856. The Atlantic Wreck Salvage (AWS), which uses the D/V Tenacious vessel for its searches, shared in ...
RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner launched by the Cunard Line in 1906. She was the world's largest passenger ship until the completion of her sister Mauretania three months later and was awarded the Blue Riband appellation for the fastest Atlantic crossing in 1908.
On 17–18 November 2024, [1] two submarine telecommunication cables, the BCS East-West Interlink and C-Lion1 fibre-optic cables were disrupted in the Baltic Sea.The incidents involving both cables occurred in close proximity of each other and near-simultaneously which prompted accusations from European government officials and NATO member states of hybrid warfare and sabotage as the cause of ...