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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 .
Canaanite shipwreck – c. 1300 BC 90 kilometres (56 mi) off the north coast of Israel, in the Mediterranean Sea at a depth of 1,800 metres (5,900 ft). [2] The Uluburun shipwreck – 1300 BC. The Cape Gelidonya shipwreck – 1200 BC. The Zambratija shipwreck – 1200 - 1000 BC. 7th century BC. Gozo Phoenician shipwreck off the coast of Malta. [3]
The ship contained 317 copper ingots in the normal oxhide shape, 36 with only two corner protrusions, 121 shaped like buns, and five shaped like pillows. [ 9 ] : 276 [ 1 ] : 141 [ 10 ] : 2 The oxhide ingots (ingots with two or four protrusions) range in weight from 20.1 to 29.5 kilograms (44 to 65 lb) after being cleaned of their corrosion.
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Admiral Mann (1800 ship) MV Adriatica; French frigate Aigle (1782) French ship Alcide (1782) Spanish destroyer Almirante Ferrándiz (1928) French submarine Alose (1904) Ottoman torpedo boat Alpagot; HMS Anne Galley; April 2021 Mediterranean shipwreck; HMS Ardent (1782) French corvette Aréthuse; HMS Ariel (1897) HMS Arrow (1796) French frigate ...
The ancient Roman shipwreck, nicknamed the Illes Formigues II after the nearby Formigues Islands, was rediscovered in 2016, according to a blog post from the Catalan Archaeology Museum. The ship ...
Evidence of tin trade in the Mediterranean can be seen in a number of Bronze Age shipwrecks containing tin ingots such as the Uluburun off the coast of Turkey dated 1300 BC which carried over 300 copper bars weighing 10 tons, and approximately 40 tin bars weighing 1 ton. [44]
While exploring a 500-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Sweden, divers discovered “surprising” cargo and weapons that may have helped repel pirates.