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A Spanish-Cuban slave ship that wrecked on a reef in the Florida Keys after a running gun battle with a Royal Navy anti-slavery patrol ship. USS Helena I United States Navy: 11 September 1919 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 ...
The Vamar is a shipwreck (which sank on March 21, 1942) near Mexico Beach, Florida, United States. [2] It is located 3.7 miles offshore from Mexico Beach. It became the ninth Florida Underwater Archaeological Preserve when it was dedicated in 2004. [2] On April 10, 2006, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. [3]
Location of Escambia County in Florida. ... State Road 399 west of Pensacola Beach ... St. Joseph's Church Buildings. July 10, 1979 ...
The shipwreck is the latest artifact to be unearthed along Florida's coast. In November, a treasure hunter found a diamond ring worth $40,000 in St. Augustine.
For years, beachgoers at Daytona Beach Shores in Volusia County, Florida, have unknowingly been walking over a piece of history. Under the sands south of Frank Rendon Park, a wooden object has ...
Florida state and federal authorities have recovered a million dollars’ worth of stolen gold coins that are linked to a fleet of sunken 18th-century treasure ships.. The state’s Fish and ...
The Florida Panhandle Shipwreck Trail features 12 shipwrecks including artificial reefs and a variety of sea life for diving, snorkeling and fishing offshore of Pensacola, Destin, Panama City and Port St. Joe, Florida. The "trail offers an adventurous opportunity for heritage, recreational, and ecological tourism." [4]
The Florida Department of Transportation said it was an “amazing discovery” in an Oct. 12 announcement about the ship. Construction crews accidentally found a shipwreck dated to the mid- to ...