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Charlestown Shipwreck and Heritage Centre. The Shipwreck Treasure Museum (previously the Charlestown Shipwreck & Heritage Centre) located in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Charlestown, Cornwall, England, is a historical museum housing over 8,000 artifacts from over 150 different shipwrecks.
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.
Hundreds of items recovered from shipwrecks, including cannons, crockery, and other treasures are being put up for auction. The artefacts, dating from the 16th Century to more recent wrecks, are ...
The Royal Cornwall Museum. This list of museums in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom, contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for ...
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Ancestry.com records shows the list of those who died in this shipwreck, and the total listed as D.W. (death by total wreck) was eleven. [citation needed] September – a ship's boat with the name Pensee-Augrey was found at St Ives on 1 October and wreckage was washed ashore. A body of a young man was found at Hawke's Point.
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Panamanian cargo ship; torpedoed by U-404. [36] Normannia: 17 January 1924 Foundered in a storm at Frying Pan Shoals. Northeastern United States: 30 December 1904 American tanker; ran aground on Diamond Shoals. Norvana United States: 19 January 1942 American freighter; torpedoed off Cape Hatteras by U-123. [40] CSS North Carolina Confederate ...