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Shackleton's Endurance Was Weak From the Start
Shackleton's Endurance
Was Weak From the Start
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Oct 6, 2025 12:17 PM CDT

Shackleton's Endurance Was Weak From the Start

New research blames structural flaws for its sinking in pack ice

(Newser) - For more than a century, icy Antarctic waters took the blame for the sinking of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance, touted as the strongest polar ship of its time—but a new study suggests the real culprit was the ship itself. It comes from Jukka Tuhkuri, an ice researcher and...

Sunken Treasure Fleet Gives Up $1M in Coins

Salvage crews found 1K silver coins, plus more gold artifacts, over the summer

(Newser) - Treasure hunters combing Florida's aptly named Treasure Coast have struck gold, uncovering over 1,000 gold and silver coins from the 1715 Spanish Treasure Fleet. Salvagers with Queens Jewels, LLC, announced the haul—over a thousand silver "Reales" and five gold "Escudos," plus rare gold...

A First: Artifacts Recovered From Titanic's Sister Ship

The Britannic sank during World War I

(Newser) - Divers have recovered artifacts from the Titanic's sister ship, the Britannic, for the first time since the ocean liner sank in the Aegean Sea more than a century ago after striking a mine during World War I, the AP reports. The Culture Ministry in Greece said Monday that an...

139-Year-Old Shipwreck Found in Lake Michigan

Decades of earlier searches failed to find cargo schooner

(Newser) - After decades of scouring the bottom of Lake Michigan, searchers have finally found the wreckage of a cargo schooner that sank during a ferocious storm almost 140 years ago off the Wisconsin coastline. The Wisconsin Historical Society and the Wisconsin Underwater Archeology Association announced Monday that a team led by...

People on Scottish Island Salvage, Identify Shipwreck

Residents are 'becoming experts,' one community researcher says

(Newser) - When a schoolboy going for a run found the ribs of a wooden ship poking through the dunes of a remote Scottish beach, it sparked a hunt by archaeologists, scientists, and local historians to uncover its story. Through a mix of high-tech science and community research, they have an answer,...

Livestream Viewers Find WWII Wreck's Missing Bell

Viewers spotted the bell of the USS DeHaven before ROV operators during recent dive

(Newser) - A long-lost chapter of World War II naval history resurfaced this week as explorers uncovered new artifacts from the wreck of the USS DeHaven, an American destroyer that sank off the Solomon Islands in 1943. The search, led by the Ocean Exploration Trust, relied on sonar and remotely operated...

Divers Return to Famed Antikythera Shipwreck

Part of ancient Greek wreck's hull has been retrieved

(Newser) - Divers have returned to the famed Antikythera shipwreck off the coast of Crete, a site that has yielded troves of ancient artifacts since its discovery in 1900. The latest expedition, led by the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece and conducted in May and June 2025, focused on retrieving...

Severed Bow of WWII Ship Found, 8 Decades Later

The USS New Orleans bow is located deep in Iron Bottom Sound near Guadalcanal

(Newser) - Lost for more than 80 years, the severed bow of the legendary USS New Orleans—torn away by a torpedo in one of World War II's fiercest battles—has finally been discovered deep beneath the Pacific, CBS News reports. Researchers with the Ocean Exploration Trust discovered the wreckage...

Experts: Yep, Wreck Is Captain Cook's Endeavour

Australian museum's determination has yet to be backed by Rhode Island officials

(Newser) - After years of debate, researchers have confirmed the final resting place of Captain James Cook's HMS Endeavour as Rhode Island's Newport Harbor. The Endeavour, famous for Cook's 18th-century Pacific voyages and for claiming Australia for Britain, had long been the subject of speculation. In 2022, the...

Researchers Confirm Coins Are From Legendary Shipwreck

The San Jose galleon, sunk off Colombia in 1708, could hold more than $20B in treasure

(Newser) - Researchers have confirmed that gold coins recently studied near the wreck of the San Jose, a Spanish galleon sunk off Colombia in 1708, do indeed come from the famed ship. The San Jose, often called the "holy grail" of shipwrecks , was carrying gold, silver, and gems believed to...

8-Year-Old Finds a Shipwreck
8-Year-Old
Finds a
Shipwreck
May 16, 2025 6:07 AM CDT

8-Year-Old Finds a Shipwreck

Scientists say boy may have discovered St. Anthony, schooner that sank in Lake Huron in 1856

(Newser) - A metal detector turned out to be quite the birthday gift for a Canadian 8-year-old—he seems to have found a nearly two-century-old shipwreck. Back in 2023, Lucas Atchison was testing out his new acquisition at Point Farms Provincial Park, along the shores of Lake Huron in Ontario, when he...

Mystery Surrounds Sunken Aircraft Carrier's Lone Car
Mystery Surrounds Sunken
Aircraft Carrier's Lone Car
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Apr 27, 2025 6:38 AM CDT

Mystery Surrounds Sunken Aircraft Carrier's Lone Car

Ford convertible discovered in the wreck of USS Yorktown

(Newser) - A crew researching an iconic US Navy aircraft carrier that sunk during World War II just discovered a baffling artifact inside: a Ford convertible that would've been nearly new when the USS Yorktown was torpedoed in June 1942. It's a fascinating discovery in part because there's no...

Scan Confirms Legend of the Titanic's Last Hours
Scan Confirms Legend
of the Titanic's Last Hours
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Apr 13, 2025 11:54 AM CDT

Scan Confirms Legend of the Titanic's Last Hours

Ice penetrated ship, which sank as stokers were still shoveling coal, evidence suggests

(Newser) - The legend goes that Titanic's stokers were shoveling coal into boilers to keep the lights on even as the ship sank. Now, analysis of a digital scan of the shipwreck on the ocean floor some 350 miles off the coast of Newfoundland appears to confirm the story as truth,...

Shipwreck Discovery Gave Him 'Chills'

Western Reserve was one of the first all-steel cargo ships to traverse the Great Lakes

(Newser) - Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail on the Great Lakes. The Western Reserve was one of the first all-steel cargo ships to traverse the lakes. Built to break speed records, the 300-foot freighter dubbed "the inland...

Girl, 11, Survives 3 Days at Sea in Inner Tubes

Child from Sierra Leone appears to be only survivor from migrant boat that sank off coast of Italy

(Newser) - Shortly after 3am on Wednesday, the crew of the Trotamar III, a vessel used by the refugee charity Compass Collective, heard a child's cries in the dark. They found an 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone floating in the water, clinging to two tire inner tubes—the only apparent survivor...

Contractor Allegedly Stole $1M in Gold During Treasure Dive

Florida's Eric Schmitt charged with dealing in stolen property

(Newser) - Three dozen gold coins stolen from 18th-century shipwrecks off Florida's Treasure Coast, worth more than $1 million, have been recovered. The 37 stolen gold coins include a so-called "Holy Grail coin," a one-of-a-kind gold piece from 1709 that was incorrectly hammered with a silver coin stamp, per...

Aged Destroyer Fought Enemy Alone, Then Flipped the Bird
WWII Destroyer Fought Enemy
Alone, Then Flipped the Bird
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Nov 16, 2024 12:00 PM CST

WWII Destroyer Fought Enemy Alone, Then Flipped the Bird

Wreck of USS Edsall, sunk by Japanese in 1942, discovered east of Christmas Island

(Newser) - The Japanese called the USS Edsall "the dancing mouse." Stumbling upon a Japanese naval force in the Indian Ocean three months after the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the aged and damaged destroyer loaded with 185 US Navy personnel and 31 US Army Air Force pilots fought alone...

Crew's Final Movements Frozen in Time on Endurance

3D scan reveals remarkable detail of the wreck, including scattered dishes and a lost boot

(Newser) - As Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's flagship, Endurance, was lost to ice in 1915, the expedition's photographer grabbed a flare gun and fired it as a tribute to the ship which served as the crew's home. In his diary, Frank Hurley recalled that he then set the...

US Navy's 'Ghost Ship of the Pacific' Is Found

USS Stewart was deliberately sunk off California in 1946, ending a 'globe-spanning odyssey'

(Newser) - The only US Navy destroyer captured by Japanese forces during World War II has been found in a deep, watery grave off the coast of California. The USS Stewart was stationed in Manila in 1941 to help repel Japanese attacks after the one on Pearl Harbor. But after it was...

Steamship Sunk by 'Small Hole' Found 168 Years Later

Le Lyonnais went down off the Massachusetts coast in 1856, claiming 116 lives

(Newser) - There are echoes of the Titanic in the story of Le Lyonnais' demise. The English-built steamship designed to carry people and mail across the Atlantic was heading from America to Europe on its first return voyage on Nov. 2, 1856, when it collided with a sailing vessel. The ship suffered...

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