MADRID—A group of Spanish archaeologists have made detailed diagrams of a 2,500-year-old Phoenician shipwreck to help work out how best to recover it from the sea before a storm destroys it forever. The eight-meter-long Mazarron II, named after the municipality in the southeastern Spanish region of Murcia where it was found off the coast, is…

The mystery of a shipwreck off the coast of Tasmania that began 50 years ago has now been solved. Marine explorers aboard Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Research Vessel (RV) Investigator first embarked on a 38-day voyage to study an underwater landslide off Tasmania’s west coast. The expedition, led by the University of…

The shipwrecked schooner barge Selden E. Marvin was one of three vessels that sank during a storm over 100 years ago. In April, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society (GLSHS) announced the ship’s discovery—retrieving a piece of the historic puzzle. They captured haunting footage of the schooner, thrillingly revealing her partially-preserved name board, broken helm,…

It was well past midnight when frenzied crew members of two wooden vessels abandoned ship. The Ironton and Ohio had collided north of Presque Isle Lighthouse up on Lake Huron, leaving a gaping 12-foot gash in Ohio’s hull. Ironton sustained a hole in her port bow and a splintered stem for having struck Ohio on…

The wreck of a ship caught up in Australia’s worst ever maritime disaster has been found 4000 metres under the sea, 80 years after it was torpedoed by an American submarine. The Montevideo Maru, discovered off the coast of the Philippines, sank with about 980 Australian troops and civilians aboard—almost twice as many Australians killed than…

More than 50 metres below the Arafura Sea, north of Darwin, lies a submarine that was the first Japanese warship sunk by the Australian navy in World War II. Now, the journey by archaeologists and divers to document the war grave where 80 Japanese crew died has been covered in a documentary. In November 2022, a…

ROME—Italian authorities have found the bodies of five more victims of a shipwreck last month off the coast of Calabria, bringing to 86 the death toll from one of the worst migration disasters in recent European history. The tragedy was followed by another shipwreck on Sunday in which 30 people are missing and feared dead….

ROME—Thirty people are missing and 17 were rescued in the central Mediterranean on Sunday after the boat in which they were traveling from Libya capsized in bad weather, Italy’s coastguard said. The tragedy comes just weeks after a Feb. 26 shipwreck near the southern region of Calabria, in which at least 79 died. Alarm Phone,…

CAIRO—At least 14 women and children died in a shipwreck off Yemen’s Red Sea coast earlier this week, authorities said Wednesday. The boat, with over two dozen of people on board, capsized off the Province of Hodeida, according to a statement by the Fisheries Authority in Hodeida, run by the country’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels. The…

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich.—Even for the Thunder Bay area, a perilous swath of northern Lake Huron off the Michigan coast that has devoured many a ship, the Ironton’s fate seems particularly cruel. The 191-foot (58-meter) cargo vessel collided with a grain hauler on a blustery night in September 1894, sinking both. The Ironton’s captain and six…