Violet Jessop was born in Argentina in 1887, the eldest of nine children. She survived tuberculosis as a child, contrary to doctors' predictions. At 21, she became a stewardess for Royal Mail Line. Then she boarded three White Star ships, and all three met with disaster. — Read the rest
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On 2 July 1926, the memorial to those who lost their lives with the sinking of HMS Hampshire on 5 June 1916, was officially unveiled at Marwick Head. In 1926 the tower was dedicated to Lord Kitchener who was killed along with 736 men when the Hampshire struck a German laid mine. The vessel was […]
For centuries, mariners feared the waters around Cape Hatteras in North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Shifting sands and powerful storms make the area especially hazardous and unpredictable. More than 5,000 ships sank in these waters in the last 500 years, and it has long been known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic.
A fascinating museum at the southern tip of Hatteras Island tells the story in…
On 21 January 1776, a sailing vessel described as a ‘dogger’ was spotted drifting at the Bay of Newark, Sanday. It was found dismasted and abandoned. What had happened to the crew in a ship so far off its original course? What happened to its cargo? The Ensgeizentheit (various spellings of the vessel occur in […]
MADRID, SPAIN—The Guardian reports that more than 130 shipwrecks have been found in the Bay […]
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On 1st March 1917 whilst on regular patrol the M-Class Destroyer HMS Pheasant, struck a mine off Rora Head, Hoy. A mix up and delay in going to her rescue resulted in all men lost. Only one body was ever recovered, that of Midshipman Reginald Cotter. He is buried in Lyness Naval Cemetery Hoy. The […]
A maritime archaeological excavation in Singapore waters has uncovered the Temasek Wreck—an assemblage that is both locally unprecedented and globally significant for Yuan dynasty ceramics. The excavation, carried out intermittently between 2016 and 2019, recovered approximately 3.5 tonnes of ceramic shards along with a small number of intact or nearly intact pieces. Most striking is […]
Looking out across the Cape Peninsula, a dark shape breaks the surface. This iron remnant is part of the engine block of the Royal Mail Ship _Athens_ , lost here in the year 1865.
In early May that same year, Table Bay lay under an uneasy calm. Warm days and light winds settled over the anchorage, tempting captains into a confidence. The small-boat men of Cape Town, however, who knew the moods…