The Shipwrecks of Fylde Coast
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 10, 2023
The Fylde coast in western Lancashire have seen some of the foulest weather in England’s northwest coast. The area around Blackpool is in pa...
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Purton Hulks: The Ship Graveyard
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 30, 2023
One of the largest ship graveyard in mainland Britain was created not by accident, but by the deliberate sinking of tens of old trawler and ...
Sable Island: The Graveyard of The North Atlantic
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 24, 2023
About 300 km east of Halifax, Nova Scotia, lies a narrow, crescent-shaped sandbar, whose existence has been a bane on shipping for centuries...
Princess May’s Dramatic Grounding
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 23, 2023
In August 1910, a Canadian steamship named Princess May ran aground near Sentinel Island, off the coast of Alaska, in the most spectacular ...
Wilhelm Gustloff: The Deadliest Ship Disaster You Never Heard Of
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 22, 2022
The sinking of the British ocean liner Titanic in 1912, with over 1,500 fatalities, is probably the most famous shipwreck of all time, but n...
Grace Darling's Daring Rescue of Shipwreck Survivors
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 18, 2022
In 1838, a young woman pulled off a heroic rescue saving several survivors from a wrecked merchant ship off the coast of Northumberland in n...
The Richest Ancient Shipwreck
Kaushik Patowary
May 26, 2021
In 1975, a fishing boat working in the southwestern sea of Korean peninsula, near the Shinan Islands, caught six pieces of Chinese ceramic w...
Scuttling at Scapa Flow: When The German Navy Sank its Own Ships
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 27, 2020
The Armistice of 11 November 1918, that ended hostiles between the Allied and the Allies, left little for negotiation. The Germans were give...
The Shipwreck That Gave Birth to South Africa
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 15, 2020
On 16 January 1647, a fleet of three Dutch ships—the Nieuwe Haerlem, the Olifant and the Schiedam—left Batavia, which is now Jakarta, for th...
The Mahogany Ship: An Australian Maritime Mystery
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 20, 2019
One of Australia's most enduring maritime mysteries is a shipwreck known as the “Mahogany Ship”. It was first spotted in 1836 by a party...
RMS Tayleur: The Other Titanic
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 31, 2019
The sinking of the Titanic is one of the best remembered maritime disasters in history. A grand luxury ship touted as the safest vessel aflo...
New Zealand’s Castaway Depots For Shipwrecked Sailors
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 9, 2018
An old castaway hut in the North of Antipodes Islands, New Zealand. Photo credit: LawrieM/Wikimedia Before the Suez and Panama Canals open...
The Ships Buried Under San Francisco’s Streets
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 19, 2018
Beneath the streets of San Francisco’s financial district lie the remains of dozens of sailing ships that once brought people to San Francis...
SS Richard Montgomery: The Thames’ Ticking Time Bomb
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 1, 2017
On 20 August 1944, an American cargo ship named SS Richard Montgomery carrying huge amount of explosives, meant for use in the ongoing Seco...
The Wreck of Swedish Warship Mars
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 12, 2017
About 18 km off the coast the Swedish island of Öland, in the Baltic Sea, at a depth of about 75 meters, lies one of the most beautiful ship...
World War 2 Wrecks of Solomon Islands
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 9, 2016
In the remote South Pacific, east of Papua New Guinea, and not far from Australia, lies a string of about nine hundred islands that make up ...
Goodwin Sands And Its Shipwrecks
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 23, 2016
Six miles off the coast of Deal in East Kent, England, lies one of the most treacherous stretches of sand in Britain. Lying in the middle of...
The Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 2, 2016
In Southern Maryland, about thirty miles south of Washington, D.C., the Potomac River forms a shallow bulge called Mallows Bay. It’s an incr...
The Sinking of Steamboat Arabia And its Discovery in a Cornfield
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 1, 2016
On September 1856, a steamboat named Arabia left Kansas up the Missouri river on a routine trip, carrying two hundred tons of supplies for s...
The Floating Forest of Homebush Bay, Sydney
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 5, 2015
The affluent suburb of Homebush Bay on the south bank of the Parramatta River, in the inner west of Sydney, was once the dumping ground for ...
