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A Ship at Sea, by Ludolf Backhuysen (1650–1708)

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MV Kompozitor Rakhmaninov aground on Volga #roro #shipwreck #russia The 126 meter long, 4673 dwt ro-ro cargo vessel Kompozitor Rakhmaninov ran aground on the Volga River off Astrakhan, Russia.

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Istanbul, Turkey 1982

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Schooner brig Tres Hombres (1943) an active cargo ship

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The Mortar Wreck

In 2020, archaeologists found a wreck in Swash Channel, near Poole Bay in Dorset, England, believed to be Britain's oldest known wreck with wooden remains in English waters.

The clinker construction of the hull. The wood used here is Irish oak from the 13th century.(x)

The clinker-built remains have been dated to between 1242-1265 thanks to dendrochronology.

The survival of 13th-century vessels is extremely rare, and prior to this discovery, there are no known wrecks of seagoing ships from the 11th to the 14th century in English waters. There are older wrecks dating back to the Bronze Age in English waters but these only comprise the remains of the cargo and no hull structure remains. Here, too, cargo has been preserved.

Parts of the cargo (x)

The presumably 20m long cargo ship, which probably fell victim to a storm, carried mortars, stone kettles, Gothic Purbeck stone gravestones and raw marble from the nearby Isle of Purbeck, as well as a large kettle for cooking soup, a smaller kettle with a long handle and cups covered in concretions, hence the name Mortar Wreck. The finds are now being cleaned and prepared for display at Poole Museum.

One of the Purbeck Stone gravestones (x)

The wreck itself has now been given protected heritage status, but whether it will ever be lifted is unclear.

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The Viking ship replica Skuldelev 1, from the Viking Ship Museum Roskilde, Denmark, photo by David Coventry

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Uelvesbüll wreck of a cargo vessel c. 1600, photo by Dr. Karl-Heinz Hochhaus

This wreck was found in 1994 during construction work in the Uelvesbüller Koog, Nordfriesland, Schleswig Holstein, North Germany. It is a flat-bottomed cargo vessel, which could also sail in shallow waters. The dendrochronological examination of the oak wood used in the construction revealed that the keel was laid around 1600. About twenty years later there was an accident off the Adolfskoog: The vessel sank in a tidal channel. After salvage and a two-year stabilisation phase in a sugar solution, the wreck has been on display in the Nordfriesland Maritime Museum since April 1998.

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Cargo ship on Lake Constance. Stained glass, end of 17th century (Swiss National Museum, Zurich)