The cargo ship was built at around the time that England was beginning to look further afield for trade opportunities.
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Artículos sobre Shipwrecks
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Raising U-3523 wouldn’t be worth the incredible cost.
More than 48 shipwrecks have been illicitly salvaged - and the figure may be much higher. Museums can play a key role in the protection of these wrecks, alongside strategic recovery and legislative steps.
The French La Pérouse expedition left Botany Bay in 1788, and then vanished, rumoured to be wrecked in the Solomon Islands. But an Indian newspaper article might reveal the fate of its survivors.
Archaeologists this week found that more than half of of HMAS Perth, a WWII wreck in Indonesia, has disappeared. It’s now a race to protect the millions of other wrecks and sunken cities lying under the oceans.
168 years on, experts are finally uncovering the secrets of the Royal Navy’s tragic expedition to the Northwest Passage.
Historical insight is not the only thing that has been raised with the Mary Rose.
An assimilation of artistic, geographical and historical records offers the best reconstruction of the battle in which the Mary Rose sank yet.
In an attempt to better understand hurricanes, researchers recreate hundreds of years of hurricane records with Spanish shipwreck logs and tree ring data.
At Royal Holloway College at the University of London, Edwin Landseer’s picture “Man Proposes, God Disposes” (1864) is covered by a Union Flag every year during exams. Not because of any fears of cheating…
The huge Costa Concordia cruiseship is due to be righted in preparation for finally being towed away from the Italian island of Giglio. But why has lifting and removing the wreck taken so long, given that…
New research has shown that the Southern Ocean near Antarctica is filled with whale bone-eating worms, but it lacks wood-eating marine fauna, which are found everywhere else in the world’s oceans. This…
Vietnam has thousands of kilometres of coastline, and may have thousands of shipwrecks. Many of these wrecks would be loaded with archaeologically fascinating and significant items. But the country has…
The study and preservation of Australia’s neglected and decaying historic shipwrecks stands to leap in sophistication through a new multi-disciplinary project. Bringing in expertise from behavioural archaeology…
Principales colaboradores
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Senior Lecturer, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, University of Sydney
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Research Marine Biologist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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PhD; Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Monash University
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Research Associate, University of Amsterdam
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Honorary Lecturer, UCL
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Senior Lecturer in Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton
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Head of Knowledge, Australian National Maritime Museum and Honorary Affiliate, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Dendrochronology, University of Arizona
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Associate Professor in Maritime History, University of Portsmouth
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ARC DECRA Fellow, Edith Cowan University
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Assistant Professor of Geography, The University of Southern Mississippi
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College Curator, Royal Holloway University of London
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Sport and Exercise Biomechanist, Swansea University
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PhD researcher, Swansea University
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Lecturer in English, Australian National University
