“Et Tu Brute” Coin … And Money From Deepest Known Wreck Site
Updated: 2011-02-28 09:33:00
From ime Line Auctions Limited
A gold stater struck by Brutus, one of Julius Caesar’ infamous assassins, together with two Spanish pieces-of-eight recovered from the world’ deepest known wreck site, are among more than 250 coin lots in Time Line Auction’ London sale scheduled for Friday, March 18th at the prestigious Swedenborg Hall, Bloomsbury, just around the corner from the British Museum.
Brutus issued the stater, which depicts him standing with two of his...
On Tuesday, we posted about the first northbound transit by two Iranian Navy ships through the Suez Canal since 1979. Yesterday these ships docked in Syria on a training mission. Thanks to Phil Leon for passing the article along. Iran warships dock in Syria after crossing Suez Also in the Mediterranean, the Maria Dolores, a ferry chartered by [...]
Archaeologists in Egypt have thwarted the attempted looting of a 160-ton statue of King Ramses II. Archaeologists and guards arrested the looters, who were trying to damage and steal the statue that is part of an ancient quarry in Aswan in Upper Egypt, MENA said, citing Minister of State for Antiquities Zahi Hawass and other [...]
The remains of an 11,500-year-old child has been found in a prehistoric home in Alaska. “You can see that the child was laid in the pit—a fire hearth inside the house—and the fire was started on top of the child,” study co-author Joel Irish said. Charred wood from the pit allowed scientists to assign a [...]
By Kate O'Toole and Miranda Tetlow - ABC News
Silvano has been studying the wrecks since the early 90s, completing a Masters and a PhD on the subject.He thinks these World War Two wrecks are JUST as important as the ancient rock art shelters we also boast in the Territory...It's a lesson in underwater archaeology on The Guestroom, as we take you diving, surveying and into the intricacies of heritage listing in Northern Territory waters.Listen more...
A Bronze Age settlement and Samartian burial ground has been uncovered at a construction site in Hungary. Several thousand metal objects, Roman bronze, silver and golden coins, and jewellery were excavated by archaeologists in the Oros district of the city, said the head of the excavation. One old pot contained as many as 34 bracelets, [...]
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From ur Amazing Planet
A nearly 400-year-old shipwreck was discovered in Corolla, N.C., in 2008 after storms and tides uncovered its timbers. Archeologists from the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources believe the structure to be the remains of the oldest shipwreck discovered off the North Carolina coast.
In the summer of 2010, archeologists decided that the wreckage couldn't remain on the beach any longer, where wind, sand and...
By Michele Nugent - Weekend Courier
The WA Museum’ maritime archaeology department has pinpointed the location of a Tasmanian-built timber steamship that sunk southwest of Garden Island in March 1900.The SS Cambria had left Fremantle on her way to southern ports when a southwest gale and heavy seas forced Captain Colstadt to seek shelter at Rockingham. A heavy swell threw the 28.7m, two-masted vessel onto a reef, breaking its propeller and causing it to take on water, eventually sinking...
From newhampshire.com
The USS 0-9 submarine was undergoing a deep dive drill on June 20, 1941 off the Isle of Shoals when it sank, taking the lives of all 33 crewman.The story of the American sub, and how it made it came to its end in New Hampshire, is the subject of a program at 7 p.m.Tuesday, Feb. 22, at the Amherst Town Library. David Switzer, consulting nautical archaeologist for the State of New Hampshire, will present “The Discovery of the Remains of the Submarine USS 0-9.”...
By Charles Jackson - WXYZ
The 30th Great Lakes Shipwreck Festival presented by the Ford Seahorses Scuba Diving Club along with the Detroit historical Society's Dossin Maritime and the Dossin Great Lakes Museum will take place Saturday, March 5th at Washtenaw Community College.The festival will run from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at Washtenaw Community College's Morris Lawrence Building. On display will be several new shipwreck discoveries that were found in the Great Lakes including the Lady Elgin...
By Nicole A. Flotteron - Hamptons
Gardiner's Island - Approximately five square miles in size, Gardiner's Island, a part of the town of East Hampton, has a rich, tumultuous history that spans nearly 400 years of ownership by the same family. It is the only real estate intact in the United States that is part of an original royal grant from the English Crown. The Island has survived Indian wars, pirates, invasion by British forces, war, and family issues. It is home to more than 1,000 acres of...
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By Erin James - The Virginian-Pilot
The powerful winds of a blustery winter have uncovered the rusted metal and weathered wood of a previously unknown shipwreck on an isolated soundside beach of Hatteras Island.The 20-foot mystery vessel has emerged from the side of an eroded dune, where recently uprooted trees attempt to shield the exposed wreck from curious eyes. Evil-looking spikes - presumably the bolts that once held the vessel together - reach upward from...
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By eter Collins - The Standard
When Peter Ronald first started diving down to wrecks off the rugged south-west coast he used oxygen cylinders from World War II aircraft connected with stainless-steel pipes and held together with ex-army webbing.One of the diving regulators was made of silver solder brass.It's primitive compared with the hi-tech gear on today's market, but it did the trick for the former Terang teenager and his mates Andrew and Tim Goodall and...
January and early February sailing conditions out of Channel Islands Harbor kicked our sailing season into high gear. There has been an inordinate amount of warm days with gentle winds. In fact, January for the most part, was warmer than July! The real test of these statements though is the Membership roster at our sailing [...]
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By Ralph Gifford - Culture 24
With bitterly cold winters becoming increasingly common, the National Maritime Museum in Falmouth is opening a new polar exhibition celebrating Polar adventurers. Aptly named On Thin Ice: Pioneers of Polar Exploration, the exhibition has been developed with the help of the Polar Museum in Cambridge and will open on April 8.
The exhibition focuses on the historic and modern-day achievements of polar pioneers by using photography, artefacts, equipment...
From the Daily Mail
An intrepid British photographer has travelled the world snapping pictures of the bizarre things lying on the sea bed.Diving enthusiast Alex Mustard, 36, has made many strange discoveries while exploring beneath the water's surface.His pictures, taken while investigating the insides of eerie shipwrecks, include barnacle-covered motorbikes once meant for British troops in World War Two.
Rusty British trucks also lie forgotten in their watery graves along with rifles that have...
Engineers drilling in San Francisco’s Candlestick Park uncovered two 90-foot scow schooners which date back to the 19th century. Buried under more than 14 feet of sand and fill dirt, the 45-foot-long hull sections came to light at the mouth of an enormous trench that will house a new overflow sewage pipe for the Visitacion [...]
From The Dominion Post
All along Wellington's stormy South Coast lie the victims of howling gales and bad decisions. Swamped by monstrous waves or steered blindly on to rocks, shipwrecks dot the bays and inlets, sheltering slices of history and plenty of crayfish. Owhiro Bay, a treasure trove of four easily accessible wrecks, is a popular spot for novice divers. Dave Drane, who owns Splash Gordon dive centre in Island Bay and has been diving in Wellington waters for more than 20 years, says the...
The Two Brothers, a Nantucket whaler which sank in the Pacific in 1823 has been found. The captain also helmed The Essex, another whaler whose sinking inspired Moby Dick. In the early 19th century, whaling voyages often took two years or more. The Two Brothers set sail from Nantucket in November 1821. By winter 1822, [...]
odd Spoth Chronicle By Harvey Rice - Houson Chronicle
Hurricane Ike did to the USS Cavalla what Japanese destroyers tried and failed to do. The storm punched a gaping hole in the bow of the World War II submarine that survived depth charge attacks during the battle of the Philippine Sea.Ike floated the Cavalla, although its hull had been buried 15 feet in the ground when it was placed in Seawolf Park on Pelican Island in 1971. The storm surge washed earth beneath the floating sub...
Photo Santa Cruz Natural History Museum From The Sant Cruz Sentinel
On the night of Oct. 1, 1924, the combination of high seas and a course too close to the shoreline put the La Feliz on the rocks directly in front of where Long Marine Laboratory exists today.
The 100-ton vessel was carrying canned sardines from Monterey to San Francisco when she wrecked. Local residents drove out to the top of the 30-foot bluff and used their headlights to illuminate the ship and help rescue the crew of...