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--- transportation:ships [2026/04/27 22:58] – [Edmund Fitzgerald] timb
+++ transportation:ships [2026/08/25 21:19] (current) – [Mary Rose] timb
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 https://gizmodo.com/143-year-old-shipwreck-emerges-on-a-new-jersey-beach-2000715512
+===== HMS Tiger =====
+== A British Warship Split in Half and Sank in 1908. Divers Just Found the Wreck ==
+Miraculously, much of the ship remained intact, allowing experts to track down unknown details of the ship's final moments.
+Gayoung Lee - August 25, 2026, 10:55 am ET
+In 1900, the British Royal Navy purchased the HMS Tiger, a torpedo boat destroyer. But the ship never saw a single battle; eight years later, it sank after an unfortunate collision with an armed cruiser literally split the vessel in half. And the ship remained underwater, lost—until now.
+In a statement, the Royal Navy reported that, 118 years since the accident, historian-divers with ProjectXplore discovered the remains of HMS Tiger. The project, an international initiative to locate, recover, and study known shipwrecks, found Tiger roughly 203 feet (62 meters) underwater off the Isle of Wight in the southernmost coasts of the U.K. According to the project’s report on the discovery, much of both sections of the lost ship remain intact. The investigation also revealed new details about the ship’s final moments, such as its bearings moments before the tragic collision.
+“Prior to this expedition, Tiger remained the last missing 30-knot torpedo boat destroyer sunk in the English Channel,” according to ProjectXplore’s report. “Throughout [its] eight years of service, Tiger endured repeated collisions and mechanical failures, yet each time [it] returned to service… a tiger that refused to be tamed.”
+https://gizmodo.com/a-british-warship-split-in-half-and-sank-in-1908-divers-just-found-the-wreck-2000802810
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+===== Quest =====
+== Scientists Reveal the First Images of Ernest Shackleton’s Last Ship ==
+After more than 80 years underwater, the ship that witnessed the famed Antarctic explorer's final moments has revealed itself to the world.
+Gayoung Lee - July 9, 2026, 11:25 am ET
+In 1921, legendary explorer Ernest Shackleton embarked on what would become his final polar expedition. Unfortunately, Shackleton died on the ship, Quest, before entering Arctic waters. After a few side quests, Quest sank off the coast of northeastern Canada, where it would stay trapped underwater, hidden from sight since 1962—until now.
+A “once-in-a-generation” expedition led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS) has successfully discovered and photographed the wreck of Quest. Remote vehicles operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) found the ship about 1,280 feet (390 meters) below the Labrador Sea. The wreck site has “become a stunning oasis of life on an otherwise barren seafloor,” but after more than 80 years, the ship is recognizably the same vessel that witnessed Shackleton’s final days, reported Canadian Geographic, a magazine affiliated with the RCGS.
+https://gizmodo.com/scientists-reveal-the-first-images-of-ernest-shackletons-last-ship-2000783570
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 https://gizmodo.com/lost-for-300-years-pirate-plundered-treasure-ship-discovered-off-madagascar-coast-2000623968
+===== Roman =====
+== Free Divers Thought They Found a Weird Rock. It Was a 2,100-Year-Old Roman Shipwreck ==
+“This is one of the most important underwater archaeological discoveries of recent years.”
+Gayoung Lee - August 10, 2026, 11:40 am ET
+Sometime between the second and first centuries BCE, a Roman ship carrying hundreds of wine-holding vases sank to the bottom of the sea near the coast of modern-day Sicily. And that’s where it lay for the next two thousand years—until two divers ran into the shipwreck by accident.
+In a statement (translated via Google) last Saturday, the Italian Ministry of Culture reported the discovery of a Roman-era shipwreck roughly 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) off the coast of Mazara del Vallo in Sicily, Italy. Divers Giacomo De Mola and Bisulli Igor encountered the ship at a depth of 151 feet (46 meters). Further investigations by government authorities found that the ship carried hundreds of amphorae, two-handled pots archaeologists believe were used to carry different liquids and grains.
+https://gizmodo.com/free-divers-thought-they-found-a-pile-of-rocks-it-was-a-2100-year-old-roman-shipwreck-2000796467