Judge says Lake Erie shipwreck belongs to state
Updated: 2011-03-31 18:23:00
From Online.wsj.com
A 19th century schooner that lies at the bottom of Lake Erie belongs to New York state, not the salvagers who found it and want to raise and preserve it as a tourist attraction, a federal judge ruled.The Abandoned Shipwrecks Act of 1987 gives ownership of vessels embedded in submerged state property to the state, U.S. District Judge Richard Arcara wrote in a decision that could derail the ambitious preservation plans.Massachusetts-based Northeast Research LLC, which claimed...
By George Crocker - WNCT
For the first time in nearly 300 years, Blackbeard’ flagship, Queen Anne’ Revenge, returns to North Carolina. It's happening this June in a new exhibit at the North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort.It was 1718 when the notorious pirate ran his ship aground in Beaufort Inlet. That's roughly two miles from where the Museum stands today.“We’e piecing together untold stories of Blackbeard, his crew and the ship, that we’l be able to share...
From Maritime Journal
English Heritage has issued a warning that action will be taken against anyone illegally accessing, damaging or removing items from protected historic wrecks.This follows the launch of the Alliance to Reduce Crimes Against Heritage (ARCH) in February with the support of over 40 organisationsEnglish Heritage and the police are increasingly working together to safeguard wreck sites designated under the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973. In recent weeks, the Ministry of Defence Police...
Goats, cows and sheep are running amok in the ancient Greek city of Cyrene in eastern Libya. ”We really want someone to look at tourism and for companies to invest. Most of the artifacts are still buried. Tourism has been neglected,” said unemployed Shahaat resident Hamdy Bzeiwi, who has seen little of the income that [...]
None of them knew the color of the sky. Their eyes glanced level, and were fastened upon the waves that swept toward them. These waves were of the hue of slate, save for the tops, which were of foaming white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and [...]
Earlier this month I posted about some Gold Rush-era recordings which were found underwater on the A.J. Goddard. The music has now been recovered. Though damaged from spending more than a century at the bottom of Lake Laberge – a widening of the river and the setting for Klondike poet Robert Service’s ghoulish 1907 masterwork [...]
Two skeletons dating back 8,500 years, making them the oldest ever found in what is now Turkey, have been discovered during archaeological excavations in Istanbul’s Yenikap? area. “Such remains have not been discovered during the excavation before; these are the oldest graves in Anatolia,” said Dr. Yasemin Y?lmaz, an expert on anthropology and prehistory, who [...]
By Jim Hayden - The Holland Sentinel
Researchers have found the shipwreck of what could be one of the oldest vessels in southern Lake Michigan.Underwater video of this new discovery will be shown at the annual Mysteries and Histories Beneath the Inland Seas event at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 16, at the Knickerbocker Theatre in Holland.Holland-based Michigan Shipwreck Research Associates made the discovery of the 60-foot, single-masted sloop dating back to perhaps the 1830s in deep water between...
Last week, while searching near the the wreck of Nuestra Senora de Atocha, Bill Burt, a diver for Mel Fisher’s Treasures, found a 17th century gold chain worth $250,000. Deep sea treasure: 17th century gold chain worth $250,000 plucked from ocean bed near Atocha wreck In 1622 the a fleet of twenty-eight ships left Havana bound [...]
Archaeologists have discovered India’s most ancient stone tools: a whopping 1.5 million years old. The tools fall in a class of artefacts called Acheulian that scientists believe were invented by the Homo erectus —ancestors of modern humans — in Africa about 1.6 million years ago. “This means that soon after early humans invented the Acheulian [...]
87 WWII mortars washed up on a beach in Hampshire, England, prompting the Royal Navy to spend two days detonating them. The devices were stacked 300m (980ft) offshore at low tide, marked, and then destroyed at high tide. A 1,000m (3,280ft) exclusion zone was set up around the site, between the coastwatch tower and the [...]
From Dominican Today
Discover the endless underwater world of the Dominican Republic (DR), a diver's paradise with nearly 1,000 miles of breathtaking coastline that features colorful marine life and intriguing shipwrecks from when pirates sailed the Caribbean. Located roughly 800 miles south of Miami, the DR boasts numerous sea grass beds, vibrant coral reefs, mysterious underwater caves and some of the region's most unique sea creatures. Simply put, divers should expect the unexpected. "We are...
A huge collection of recently discovered stone tools are rewriting American history by suggesting that the Clovis people were not America’s original immigrants. The hunter gatherers associated with this technology were thought to have crossed from Siberia into Alaska via a land bridge that became exposed when sea levels dropped. Evidence indicates this occurred as [...]
This is pretty amazing. A 2,500-year-old preserved human brain has been found encased in a skull in England. Except for the brain, all of the skull’s soft tissue was gone when the skull was pulled from a muddy Iron Age pit where the University of York was planning to expand its Heslington East campus. “It [...]
A water well abandoned in New Zealand 100 years ago found new life as a rubbish tip. Now, archaeologists are digging down through the layers to find all sorts of cool 19th century artifacts. “Within the well they have found all sorts of 19th century remains, artefacts like shoes and tin cans – some of [...]
The 1,800-year-old Roman spa complex of Allianoi in Izmir Province, Turkey is already halfway submerged under the dammed waters of the Ilya River. Flooding began on December 31st, 2010. By the end of February, Allianoi was already under an estimated 61 million cubic meters of water. You can see a desperately sad slideshow of the [...]
The Channel Islands Harbor community lost a business this past month that will be missed by many. Coast Chandlery had an exceptionally long history that spanned pretty much, this harbors’ entire existence. At one point, we understand there was more than one outlet that included a store in far flung Cabo San Lucas. It was [...]
Archaeologists in the Sudan have discovered a medieval settlement in the region’s Nile Valley. “There is no written mention of it and yet it is one of the biggest strongholds in this part of the Nile Valley”, says Polish archeologist Mariusz Drzewiecki. Another interesting find is a settlement on the Nurein hill. “It was a [...]
Six “lost” letters written by famous composer Frederic Chopin have been found. The letters, written by Chopin to his parents and sisters between 1845 and 1848, were believed lost after the outbreak of World War II. After it emerged in 2003 that they still existed in a private collection, moves were made to secure them. [...]
By Rachael Recker - The Grand Rapids Press
The Grand Rapids Public Museum is bringing the stories and artifacts of the 20th century's most infamous sunken ship to the Great Lakes State for its maiden Michigan voyage.Premier Exhibitions' “Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition” will make its Michigan debut, said the museum's spokesperson, Rebecca Westphal, in November in 2012 – the year that marks the 100th anniversary of the vessel's sinking.Historically, the month also is the most...
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By Wynne Parry - LiveScience
In 1845, two ill-fated British ships headed for the Canadian Arctic in the hope of discovering the Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean. More than two decades later, the nearly complete skeleton of one of the explorers was recovered from a shallow, stone-covered grave on King William Island in the Canadian Arctic.The remains were then identified as those of Henry Le Vesconte, a lieutenant aboard one of the ships, the HMS Erebus. However,...
From uddersfield Daily Examiner
He has been working in the murky seas around Britain’ coast for 25 years.But now commercial diver Sean Ryan, of Huddersfield, has struck gold – quite literally!The 45-year-old from Crosland Moor has found a hoard of buried treasure.Okay, it may not be a rotting wooden chest full of gold doubloons and goblets.But the haul of coins, cutlery and medals he uncovered 120 metres down on the sea bed of the English Channel is worth a few thousand pounds.And...
By imon Crerar - Cairns.com
100 years ago tomorrow, the passenger cruiser SS Yongala was approaching Mackay on route from Melbourne to Cairns on its 99th voyage in Australian waters. On March 23, 1911, disaster struck. The Yongala steamed into a cyclone and sank south of Townsville with the loss of all 122 people on board.Tragically, a Marconi wireless that would have alerted the Yongala to the cyclone arrived from England shortly after the disaster.To commemorate this tragic event, Woodward...
By Jef Otte
Besides maybe monster-truck driver, Barry Clifford has about the most badass job that exists: He's a real-life, bona-fide treasure hunter. His 1983 discovery of the Whydah, a pirate ship wrecked off the coast of Cape Cod, provides the backbone of the Real Pirates exhibit currently at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and tonight, Clifford will talk about the process of finding that ship and the projects he and his crew are currently working on. But we got to him first. In advance...
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By Patrick George tatesman
Archaeologists searched in Panamanian waters for sunken pirate ship.
In 1671, the English pirate-for-hire Captain Henry Morgan spearheaded a raid on Panama, then the richest city in Spain's colonial empire, leading thousands of men and a naval fleet armed to the teeth. But while Morgan was a brilliant military strategist, he wasn't much of a navigator, according to Texas State University underwater archaeology professor Frederick...
By Matt Vande Bunte - The Grand Rapids Press
Sure, a 1990s movie about the Titanic brought in nearly $2 billion at the box office. But that’ not to say the infamous sinking has a corner on the market for shipwreck tales.In fact, “Michigan is incredibly endowed with gripping stories” of great historical significance, said an underwater expert who will speak this week in Grand Rapids.Ken Vrana and others will discuss two explorations in particular from 7-8:30 p.m. Wednesday at...
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 [...]
Hawaiian Chieftain and Lady Washington are cruising the West Coast together as they usually do. They both departed San Diego after a Christmas Holiday visit there. After eight days at the Channel Islands Harbor, the two tall ships will spend another week at the Ventura Harbor before heading to the San Francisco Bay area for [...]
When we were on our Antigua Flotilla in November, two of the other boat Captains brought along Ipads with Navionics charts. The ease of use and big screen graphics was really great. We find when sailing in places we’ve never been, having two GPS charts is much better than one. We set the one that [...]
After uncountable years of poor weather for Oxnard’s Parade of Lights, Saturday dawned warm and clear and stayed that way! By parade time at 7pm, the temperature was 64° with no wind. Like clockwork, the crowds returned to line the harbor and cheer on the entries. Boats large and small were decorated for a 2-lap, [...]
The Channel Islands Harbor is set to be dredged beginning Monday, December 6th. Not a moment to soon according to our calculations. The beach on the East Jetty is expansive these days and on any day I watch “soft groundings” by unsuspecting mariners here on the West side. If the dredge and its tenders are [...]
By Joanna Davis - Dorset Echo
A coastguard who became intrigued by a local shipwreck mystery has donated research that he spent years building up to a national museum. hilip Chappell’ project on Landing Craft Tank 254 running aground off Chesil Beach on October 13, 1944, started off as a work assignment and evolved into a three-year passion. Weymouth resident Mr Chappell, who works for the Portland Coastguard as a watch assistant, began researching the naval disaster in which 11...
From Herald Gazette
Union Historical Society will present a program on Remarkable Shipwrecks of New England at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 6 in the sanctuary of People's United Methodist Church, Depot Street, Union.Marine journalist and historian Jon Johansen of Winterport will discuss New England shipwrecks from the loss of the circus ship Royal Tar in 1836 to the sinking of the SS Andrea Doria in 1956.Johansen relates that although only 46 people died out of more than 2,000 on board...