The SS Georgiana lost and found
Updated: 2010-03-20 04:42:00
From Nashua Telegraph
Today (March 19th) in 1863, the SS Georgiana, reportedly the most powerful cruiser built for the Confederate Navy, failed to make it past the Federal Blockading Squadron and into Charleston, SC. The ship’ desperate crew was forced to beach the Georgiana and flee, after which the Union forces set the wreck on fire. As this was the ship’s maiden voyage, the Confederate forces were less than encouraged by this outcome.By all accounts, the Georgiana was...
Aided by wartime photos, the Austrian government has identified at least two mass graves of Nazi victims.
The mass graves are located underneath an army sports field in the southern city of Graz. Government officials say they contain about 70 bodies.
The victims were concentration camp inmates and others, all killed by the SS to eliminate witnesses [...]
The skeleton of a mongrel who went down with the Mary Rose on July 19, 1545 has been pieced together.
The dog, now preserved as an almost complete canine skeleton, acquired the nickname Hatch after divers discovered her remains near the sliding hatch door of the Mary Rose’s carpenter’s cabin.
Experts believe the hound, estimated to have [...]
A dozen shipwrecks, some of which are unusually well-preserved, have been found at the bottom of the Baltic sea by a gas company building an underwater pipeline. [Thx Kristen]
The oldest wreck probably dates back to medieval times and could be up to 800 years old, while the others are likely from the 17th to 19th centuries, said [...]