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The Blackfriar III is the most complete medieval sailing ship found in Great Britain. Boddington United Kingdom: 1805 A merchantman and convict ship that was stranded on a sandbank near Blackwall. HMS London England: 7 March 1665 A second-rate ship of the line that accidentally exploded in the Thames Estuary, killing 300 crewmen.
Like the other Blackfriars ships, these two appear to have been used to carry and transport building supplies. The Blackfriars III ship is the most complete medieval sailing ship to be discovered in Britain. It was a sailing ship built around 1400 and was approximately 48 feet (15 m) long, 14 feet (4.3 m) wide and 2 feet 11 inches (0.89 m) high.
A Cöln-class cruiser that was among the 74 ships scuttled in Scapa Flow by Admiral Reuter. El Gran Grifón Spanish Navy: 27 September 1588 A ship of the Spanish Armada that was wrecked on Fair Isle. Elinor Viking United Kingdom: 9 December 1977 An Aberdeen trawler that wrecked on the Ve Skerries, Shetland. [5] Empire Conveyor United Kingdom ...
The wreck of the Klein Hollandia was found in 2019, 14 km southeast of Beachy Head, East Sussex, England. The site was designated under the Protection of Wrecks Act on 5 July 2019. The wreck is a Protected Wreck managed by Historic England.
23 January – an unidentified troop ship, possibly one of Admiral Christian's West Indies convoy was wrecked within a cable length of Loe Bar during a ″great storm″ in Mount's Bay. The ship was carrying between 400 and 600 officers and men of the 26th Regiment of Dragoons ; not one of the crew or passengers survived.
The ship is an early example of this method of construction in England. Her hull shape is now known to have been set out using the three arc method of producing the hull cross section. This geometric process is similar to that known to have been used some two hundred years later, so giving a much earlier date for this technique.
Newfound pieces of a sixth century bucket, unearthed at the site of an Anglo-Saxon ship burial in England, are helping researchers learn how the vessels were used. New excavations reveal missing ...
The remains of the ship were found by Cemex workers dredging for aggregate in Denge quarry at Dungeness in April 2022. They were about 8 m (26 ft) below the water level and about 300 m (330 yd) inland from the modern coastline. [1] [2] A large part of the ship's hull was raised intact by the dredgers. [3]