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On 23 September 1588, the San Juan de Sicilia was spotted off Islay, and several days later landed in Tobermory Bay, on the Isle of Mull. The ship was not damaged, but the crew were short of water, and the ship's senior officer negotiated for supplies with the local chieftain, Lachlan MacLean of Duart.
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: 1733 A ship in the 1733 Spanish Plate Fleet that was wrecked along the Florida Keys. Isaac Allerton United States: 28 August 1856 A merchant ship that sank in a hurricane off the Saddlebunch ...
The size and shape of Florida, along with its natural features like reefs, shoals, water depth, currents, locations of rivers and inlets and the weather, have affected where people lived and where vessels wrecked. Florida has some of the best natural harbors in the country, resulting in the state becoming an international maritime crossroads.
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 ...
The remains of a 300-year-old British warship found 30 years ago in the waters off Florida have finally been ... New evidence has determined that the shipwreck remains are that of the gunship ...
The USS Amesbury is well documented as a shipwreck split in two off South Florida, but a mystery has emerged from its heyday as a Naval destroyer in World War II. U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships ...
The ship was driven ashore in Tobermory Bay. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Wyborg, Grand Duchy of Finland. She was refloated on 29 April and beached at Tobermory, Isle of Mull. [58] Elizabeth: Van Diemen's Land: The schooner was driven ashore in Encounter Bay. She was later refloated and taken into Port Adelaide, South ...
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