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Some wrecks still lie where they sank, visible only through a diver’s camera. Others have been raised and painstakingly conserved, so you can see the timbers, plates, and fittings up close. These photographs show what was found and what each wreck tells us about the ship’s last voyage.

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RMS Titanic
RMS Titanic: The bow still rises above the Atlantic seabed in this 2003 expedition photograph. A U.S.–French team found…
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Shackleton’s Endurance
Shackleton’s Endurance: The letters of Endurance and the star beneath them are still visible on the stern. Antarctic ice…
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Mary Rose
Mary Rose: Henry VIII’s warship sank in the Solent in 1545. Divers found its surviving frames in 1971, and a steel cradle…
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Vasa
Vasa: The Swedish warship sank on its maiden voyage in Stockholm in 1628 and was raised in 1961. Most of its original wood…
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Mars Makalös
Mars Makalös: A diver provides scale in this underwater photomosaic of Sweden’s Mars. The warship sank off Öland in 1564…
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Skuldelev 1
Skuldelev 1: The original timbers of this Viking cargo ship rest on a steel support in Roskilde. It was one of five vessels…
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The Bremen Cog
The Bremen Cog: The medieval Bremen Cog rests on supports at the German Maritime Museum. Workers found the wreck in the…
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Nanhai I
Nanhai I: The exposed timbers belong to a Southern Song merchant ship that sank off Guangdong. Archaeologists raised the…
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USS Arizona
USS Arizona: A diver photographs the submerged wreck during a 2014 survey in Pearl Harbor. USS Arizona sank during the…
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USS Johnston
USS Johnston: The white hull number 557 is still visible on the destroyer’s starboard bow. USS Johnston sank off Samar in…
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Batavia
Batavia: Part of Batavia’s stern stands in the WA Shipwrecks Museum in Fremantle. The Dutch East India Company ship struck…
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The Kyrenia Ship
The Kyrenia Ship: The conserved hull of a Greek merchant ship is displayed at Kyrenia Castle. A sponge diver found the…
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USS Monitor
USS Monitor: The ironclad sank off Cape Hatteras in a storm in 1862. Researchers located the wreck in 1973, and a joint…
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Clotilda
Clotilda: These wood fragments helped archaeologists identify the last known ship to carry enslaved Africans to the United…
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The Antikythera Wreck
The Antikythera Wreck: A recovered piece of wooden hull is laid out for study. Sponge divers found the ancient wreck in…
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H. L. Hunley
H. L. Hunley: The iron hull of the Confederate submarine is visible inside the Warren Lasch Conservation Center. The vessel…
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HMS Erebus
HMS Erebus: A Parks Canada archaeologist works in the crew quarters on the lower deck of HMS Erebus. The ship vanished…
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HMS Terror
HMS Terror: The ship’s wheel remains in place in Terror Bay. The other ship from Franklin’s Arctic expedition was found in…
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La Belle
La Belle: The raised wooden hull rests on supports at the Bullock Texas State History Museum. La Belle sank in Matagorda…
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HMHS Britannic
HMHS Britannic: An expedition diver explores the submerged wreck of Titanic’s sister ship off Kea, Greece. Britannic served…
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RMS Lusitania
RMS Lusitania: One of Lusitania’s four-bladed propellers was raised from the wreck and put on display in Liverpool. A…

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