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A team of divers has discovered a 19th century stash of champagne and wine on a shipwreck at the bottom of the Baltic Sea.. During a recent dive off the coast of Sweden, the Polish diving group ...
The ship was capable of carrying anywhere between 5800 [3] and 8,000 amphorae, [1] each weighing 50 kilos, [3] a freight of up to 400 tons. [1] Four layers of wine amphorae, stacked in staggered rows, was the typical cargo, [3] but on the final trip, the ship was only holding three layers (6,000-6,500 amphorae) reaching 3m high. [8]
The Föglö wreck (also known as "The Champagne Schooner") is a shipwreck of a 19th-century two-masted schooner (21.5 m long × 6.5 m broad) lying in the waters off Föglö near Åland in Finland. It became famous in the summer of 2010 as several bottles of what was then considered to be world's oldest drinkable champagne were raised from the ...
Wine amphora from Mende recovered from the shipwreck Wine amphora from ancient Peparethos (Skopelos) recovered from the shipwreck. Underneath was a third layer with an additional 27 amphoras, and beneath them 35 additional artifacts including black-glazed bowls, cups, plates, and elegant bronze tableware.
The Republic was the largest ship to sink in history at the time when it sank off the U.S. East Coast in January 1909 and was rumored to be carrying a large cargo of gold. After two and a half years of research, Bayerle discovered the wreck in 1981.The Associated Press, June 28, 1983, Tuesday, AM cycle, Domestic News, 447 words.
The wreck is also claimed by U.S.-based salvage company Sea Search Armada -- which insists it found it first more than 40 years ago and has taken Colombia to the UN's Permanent Court of ...
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.
In 1973, another shipwreck was found in the bay. It was a merchant ship, during the excavations of 1978-1980 dozens of amphoras were found, with "grape seeds and resinous linings in many of them [that] indicate a cargo of wine". As noted by Pulak, Townsend, Koehler, and Wallace: