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Whydah Gally. Whydah Gally[1] / ˈhwɪdə ˈɡæli, ˈhwɪdˌɔː / (commonly known simply as the Whydah) was a fully rigged ship that was originally built as a passenger, cargo, and slave ship. On the return leg of her maiden voyage of the triangle trade, Whydah Gally was captured by the pirate Captain Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy, beginning a ...
Norwegian barque; wrecked off Hatteras Island. Hesperides. United Kingdom. 9 October 1897. British cargo ship; stranded on Diamond Shoals. Home. United States. 10 October 1837. Steam packet ship wrecked off the beach of Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, in the 1837 Racer's Storm hurricane.
A 98-foot (30 m) crabbing vessel that sank in 250 ft (76 m) of water amid icy conditions just northwest of St. George Island, Alaska in the Bering Sea. The captain and five crew members were lost with the boat. [6] Eliza Anderson. March 1898. A steamboat that was abandoned and washed ashore at Dutch Harbor.
Barry Clifford (born May 30, 1945) is an American underwater archaeological explorer, best known for discovering the remains of Samuel Bellamy's wrecked pirate ship Whydah [pronounced wih-duh] which, together with La Louise of French pirate La Buse (Olivier Levasseur), is a fully verified and authenticated pirate shipwreck of the Golden Age of Piracy discovered in the world – as such ...
A British cargo ship torpedoed and sunk by U-67 off the coast of Apalachicola [citation needed] 29°29′N 85°17′W / 29.483°N 85.283°W / 29.483; -85.283 (Empire Mica) HMS Fox (1799) Royal Navy. 1799. A 14 gun schooner that was sunk off Dog Island. [citation needed] Grace Andrews.
The ring was found 56 kilometres (35 mi) from Key West, along with two silver spoons and other artifacts. [12] [13] In 2014, Nuestra Señora de Atocha was added to the Guinness Book of World Records for being the most valuable shipwreck to be recovered, as it was carrying roughly 40 tonnes of gold and silver, and 32 kilograms (71 lb) of ...
The earliest tales of a lost Spanish galleon appeared shortly after the Colorado River flood of 1862. Colonel Albert S. Evans reported seeing such a ship in 1863. In the Los Angeles Daily News of August 1870, the ship was described as a half-buried hulk in a drying alkali marsh or saline lake, west of Dos Palmas, California, and 40 miles north of Yuma, Arizona.
She sank on 3 or 4 November. San Antonio ( Spanish Navy): Battle of the Downs: The full-rigged pinnace was driven ashore on the coast of Kent. San Carlos ( Dunkerque):Battle of the Downs: The ship was sunk in The Downs. San Cristo de Burgos ( Spanish Navy): Battle of the Downs: The ship was lost off the French coast.