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This is a list of the oldest ships in the world which have survived to this day with exceptions to certain categories. The ships on the main list, which include warships, yachts, tall ships, and vessels recovered during archaeological excavations, all date to between 500 AD and 1918; earlier ships are covered in the list of surviving ancient ships.
The Dokos shipwreck is the oldest underwater shipwreck discovery known to archeologists. [1] The wreck has been dated to the second Proto-Helladic period , 2700–2200 BC. [ 2 ]
The Uluburun Shipwreck is a Late Bronze Age shipwreck dated to the late 14th century BC, [1] discovered close to the east shore of Uluburun (Grand Cape), Turkey, in the Mediterranean Sea. [2] The shipwreck was discovered in the summer of 1982 by Mehmed Çakir, a local sponge diver from Yalıkavak , a village near Bodrum .
A 3,300-year-old ship has been discovered at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, making it one of the oldest shipwrecks ever discovered and rewriting our understanding of sailing in the ancient ...
The bars — which likely constitute the oldest known copper-carrying shipwreck — were found in the Bay of Antalya, located in southern Turkey.
A Canaanite shipwreck dating from the Late Bronze Age was found in the eastern Mediterranean Sea in June 2024, 90 km (56 mi) off the shoreline of Israel. According to the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), the ship belonged to ancient Canaanite merchants and was the oldest shipwreck to be discovered in deep water as of June 2024 [update] .
Maritime archaeologists from a Black Sea research expedition said on October 23 the 2,400-year-old skeleton of a Greek trading vessel they discovered in the eastern European body of water was the ...
3.1 By type of ship. 3.2 By war. 3.3 By navy. 3.4 By method. 4 See also. Toggle the table of contents. Lists of shipwrecks. ... List of maritime disasters in World ...