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A yacht that was wrecked off Key West in the 1919 Florida Keys hurricane. Henrietta Marie England: 1700 A slave ship sunk off Florida Keys. Herrera Spain: 1733 A ship in the 1733 Spanish Plate Fleet that was wrecked along the Florida Keys. Isaac Allerton United States: 28 August 1856 A merchant ship that sank in a hurricane off the Saddlebunch ...
Shipwrecks of the Florida Keys includes ships wrecked or deliberately sunk (as artificial reefs) along the Florida Keys. Pages in category "Shipwrecks of the Florida Keys" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.
The Key West Shipwreck Museum (formerly Shipwreck Historeum) is located in Key West, Florida, United States. It combines actors, films and actual artifacts to tell the story of 400 years of shipwreck salvage in the Florida Keys. The museum itself is a re-creation of a 19th-century warehouse built by wrecker tycoon Asa Tift.
The Mel Fisher Maritime Museum is located at 200 Greene Street, Key West, Florida.The museum contains an extensive collection of artifacts from 17th century shipwrecks, such as the Henrietta Marie, Nuestra Señora de Atocha and Santa Margarita. [1]
The remains of a 300-year-old British warship found 30 years ago in the waters off Florida have finally been identified as belonging to HMS Tyger by US archaeologists.. The Tyger came to rest in a ...
[9] [10] In 2014, Nuestra Señora de Atocha was added to the Guinness Book of World Records for being the most valuable shipwreck to be recovered, as it was carrying roughly 40 tonnes of gold and silver, and 32 kilograms (71 lb) of emeralds, [11] although this record has now been superseded by the discovery of the San José in 2015.
The USS Amesbury is well documented as a shipwreck split in two off South Florida, but a mystery has emerged from its heyday as a Naval destroyer in World War II. U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships Photograph
These same reefs are hazards to navigation. Thousands of ships have wrecked over the centuries in the Keys and elsewhere in the waters of Florida. The most famous Spanish wreck found west of the Florida Keys was the above-mentioned Nuestra Señora de Atocha, found after a sixteen-year search by Mel Fisher in 1985. The value of the ship's ...