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Several items from the ship, including bolts, cannon balls and cannons were removed by treasure hunters. [8] Discoveries in archives in South Africa and Portugal, as well as tests of artifacts confirmed in 2015 that the ship was the São José slave ship. On June 3, 2015, along with the formal announcement of the find, a memorial service was ...
The Henrietta Marie wreck has yielded more than 7000 objects (and more than 30,000 glass beads), the largest collection of artifacts known from a slave ship. They have contributed greatly to our understanding of slave ships and the slave trade. Parts making up more than 80 bilboes have been found at the wreck site.
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 captain-turned-pirate sank the stolen ship 170 years ago, but the wreckage remained lost until now, experts said. Sunken ship of the only slave trader executed in US may have been found off Brazil
Researchers are returning to the Alabama coast near Mobile to assess the sunken remains of the last slave ship to bring captive The post Researchers returning for assessment of last US slave ship ...
Researchers studying the wreckage of the last U.S. slave ship, buried in mud on the Alabama coast since it was scuttled in 1860, have made the surprising discovery that most of the wooden schooner ...
Guerrero was a Spanish slave ship that wrecked in 1827 on a reef near the Florida Keys with 561 Africans aboard. Forty-one of the Africans drowned in the wreck. Guerrero had been engaged in a battle with a British anti-slavery patrol ship, HMS Nimble, stationed on the northern approaches to Cuba.
Enslaved is a @cbcgem series examining the history of the sunken transatlantic slave ships through dive missions. @ByronWriting spoke with diver, Kramer Wimberly about how the transatlantic ...