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Hello! I’m fascinated by shipwrecks, albeit on an amateur curiosity level. I’m no expert but I’m curious, love to read and am in awe of all of the knowledge on this subreddit!
I’m hoping that you can help me preposition some future joy for myself…
I love reading about ships, from their original voyages through to the fate that brought them to the seabed. So far, I’ve only learned about these either (a) long after their discovery (as I excitedly said to my bemused boyfriend over breakfast recently having stayed up too late reading about the San José, “the 80s just sound like they were a magical time for discovering ship wrecks!”) or (b) at the time of discovery but unfortunately I hadn’t heard of them before. For example Endurance, which I’ve been obsessed with learning everything about but was totally new to me when the global headlines about its discovery hit!
I feel like I’ve learned so much intellectually but I don’t have the knowledge to feel a connection when these famous boat that I’m as of yet unaware of are found. So my question is…
What are some missing vessels I could learn about and get emotionally invested in now, that may be discovered in my lifetime?
TL;DR - What are some cool still missing boats that could be found in the next 50 years?
Thank you so much in advance, lovely ship people of this subreddit! And sorry for the cheesy post title (:
Pilot most likely ran out of fuel returning to base and had to ditch. The aircraft’s serial number and date were still visible on the wreck. And military records showed that the plane went missing during the battle of Cape Gloucester in West New Britain on the 27th December 1943.
The 64-gun San José was carrying some 7 million gold coins along with ingots, silver coins and gems to Spain during the War of the Spanish Succession when it was sunk by four Royal Navy warships on 8 June, 1708 near the port of Cartagena, with the loss of most of its 600 crew.
Just learned about this and thought I'd share. There is also a link at the bottom to a 3D Scan of the wreckage. https://militaryheritagetourism.info/en/military/sites/view/724?0&a=od
I tried to look if I can see it on Google maps but couldn't, Im guessing it got removed somehow. I heard it got depth charged but wouldn't the wreck still be there? If anyone has any information please lmk.
The U-boat was sunk by a Soviet naval mine in the Gulf of Finland on 27 November 1944. She was found in 2009, explored in the summer of 2014 and 2018, sonar surveys by Estonian vessel VLT-089 on July 24, 2018; and filmed on 8–9 September 2018 by Finnish vessel Deep Explorer and on October 10, 2018, by Estonian vessel VLT-089 in position 59°20′N 23°10′E in Estonian waters.
I recently came across a claim that during WWII, when the Japanese battleships Yamato and Shinano listed or capsized, their large funnels created such a strong suction that sailors on deck were pulled into the funnels and overboard.
It sounds like something out of a movie, but is there any truth to this? Were the ship’s funnels really that powerful, or is this just a myth? I’m curious if there are any historical accounts or sources that mention this happening. Thanks!
other than this https://stellwagen.noaa.gov/maritime/unidentified-trawler.html
and the big bay sloop.
always been interested by the ships never found or identified.
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redoing this post about older ships like SS Carl D. Bradley SS Daniel J. Morrell and SS Edmund Fitzgerald the edmund fitzgeralds structure seems like it wasnt to great for that storm especially being it was only welded heres some blueprints
it was all hollow inside the holds going across the ship with barely any structure
and if we look at highrise buildings their meant to flex but 2 their built sturdy in the ground compared to the edmund fitz the middle of the ship was weaker always then the back half and front half this is all i can think of for now lmk what yall think