Famous Wrecks

The treasure galleon San Pedro de Alcantara lost in Venezuela

Many attempts have been mad to recover treasures that have been lost by wrecks, and one of these at least has been successful. The inventor of the diving- bell secured sufficient wealth from the great sunken ship in the Caribbean Sea that he was able to found a noble family.

Old Treasures and Shipwreck News - Spanish Galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha

Old Treasures and Shipwreck News - Galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha, the famous...

The loss of an East India trade P&O Company's steamer

The loss of an East India trade P and O Company's steamer off Ceylon; The Peninsular & Oriental steam Navigation Company's steamship "Ava"...

Project named 'Batu Hitam' - The Tang Cargo

Full story about the scam from Tillman Walterfang and his team of treasure hunters, including Peter Schwarz, Fred Doberphul etc...

Perdu à tout jamais dans les profondeurs de l'Atlantique: Le Beaufort Castle

Old Treasures and Shipwreck News - Her Majesty Troopship Birkenhead

Old Treasures and Shipwreck News - Her Majesty Troopship Birkenhead - Women and children first...

Terrible naufrage et perte d'un prince normand

Terrible naufrage et perte d'un prince normand - Un trésor perdu

Golden Treasures - The Steamship Brother Jonathan

Old Treasures and Shipwreck News - The loss of the steamship Brother Jonathan

A 'Five Dynasty' treasure found in the Java Sea

The Amazing Saga Story of the Cirebon Project in the Java Sea. An ancient wreck in more than 50 meters of water. Finally at auction by the Indonesian authorities in May 2010 !

Old Treasures and Shipwreck News - Santa Madre de la Consolacion

Old Treasures and Shipwreck News - Loss of the Spanish galleon Santa Madre de la Consolacion

Le Coromandel, Compagnie Hollandaise des Indes (VOC)

Perte d'un navire de la Compagnie Hollandaise des Indes Orientales... Le côté du vaisseau renversé était couvert d'Indiens et de Mores, hommes et femmes, qui ne faisaient pas moins de cris et qui se disaient les derniers adieux les uns aux autres...

Old Treasures and Shipwrecks News - Notre Dame de la Deliverance

For nearly 250 years the caskets of gold, silver and emeralds lay undisturbed alongside the fish-cleaned bones of the sailors who went to the bottom of the sea with them. But now the glittering cargo of a Spanish treasure-ship is the centre of a bitter international row.

The explosion of the Portuguese Frigate Dona Maria II

Intelligence was received of the explosion of the Portuguese 32-gun frigate Donna Maria II...

The mysterious lost Kruger gold

A wealth-laden ship sunk off South Africa may be salvaged.

Tragic collision in the North Sea for the liner Elbe

Tragic collision in the North Sea for the German liner Elbe

Loss of the Elingamite. Fate to fortune

The s.s. Elingamite was a British schooner-rigged steamship of 2.585 tons and registered in Australia.

Richest wreck in the World...?

The Frol do Mar was a Portuguese ship of 400 tons. Her maiden voyage was under the command of Estavao de Gama (brother of Vasco de Gama).

VOC Geldermalsen

The construction of the ship begins in October 1746 under the direction of boss Hendrik Raas. Her measurements are impressive: 42 feet wide, 150 feet long (appr. 12 by 42 meters) and a capacity of 1.150 metric tons (500 'last'). Nine months later delivery takes place, on 10 July 1747.

Old Treasures and Shipwrecks News - Galleon Jesus Maria de la Limpia Concepcion

A Spanish galleon that sank with treasure of plundered gold 343 years ago has been found by divers off the coast of Ecuador, it was revealed on March 11th.

Embrasement et perte du EIC Kent dans l'Atlantique

Le Kent, navire anglais de la Compagnie des Indes, commandé, par le capitaine Henry Cobb, mit à la voile des Dunes le 19 février 1825.

The liner Labrador on the rocks

On her way from Halifax, calling at St. John's, Newfoundland, on February 18th, 1899, for her final destination Liverpool; with an assorted general cargo of 2000 tons: 20 tons of wood pulp, 1300 barrels of apples, raw furs, grain, 17 horses, bags of mail and 166 passengers, from which F. Agoncillo, agent of the Filipin

Le Naufrage du Lausdun

Lestra forma le destin de son voyage en 1671, à l'occasion du départ de M. Belat, qui allait exercer à Surate la commission de directeur du commerce pour la Compagnie Française des Indes. Son embarquement se fit au Port-Louis en Bretagne, le 4 Mars, sur le vaisseau le Saint Jean Baptiste, armé de trente-six pièces de c

Les trésors de la Frégate Lutine - Histoire devenue légende...

A Londres, vers 1680, un certain Edward Lloyd, levantin d’origine, exploitait une taverne à matelots sise à Wapping, Tower Street, dans le quartier des docks. Entièrement détruites par le grand incendie de 1667,

L'or et l'argent de Rio de Janeiro en 1711

Les fortifications de cette place paraissaient inexpugnables. En onze jours elles furent toutes enlevées. Il forcera la ville à payer de lourdes rançons et à libérer 1000 prisonniers français.

The Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes

Captain Graham Moore was commanding "Her Majesty Ship Indefatigable" and three more frigates when a Spanish flotilla was intercepted at Cape Saint Mary (Portugal), on 5th October 1804, the scene is recreated by this painting (below) by Francis Sartorius.

Naufrage de Bontekoé dans le détroit de la Sonde en Indonésie

Willem Ysbrants Bontekoe fut nommé en 1618, par la Compagnie hollandaise des Indes orientales, capitaine du vaisseau la Nouvelle Hoorn, envoyé aux Indes pour de simples intérêts de commerce; il était monté de deux cent six hommes d'équipage et du port de onze cents tonneaux.

Collision and loss of valuable and specie

The "Parsee" was a little steamer employed in the East India country trade, owned by Messrs. Jeejeebhoy Dadabhoy, Sons & Co. ...

Spanish galleon El Preciado

There is a long-established oral tradition affirming the existence of large numbers of vessels which, sunk over the years, lie beneath the shallow and turbid waters of the River Plate. The numerous remains survive in varied states of preservation, and many of them hold valuable cargo.

The lost silver rijksdaalders of the Dutch steamer Prins Frederik

The "Prins Frederik", Captain K. Visman, was a luxuriously-fitted iron steam ship of 2,978 tons gross tonnage built in 1882 by J.Elder & Co. of Glasgow...

The English Golden Wreck

The Royal Charter was a steam clipper which was wrecked on the east coast of Anglesey, broken up on these rocks near Moelfre, on 26th of Oct., 1859.

A burnt steamer on the Mississippi

The steamer "Ruth", captain Pegram, bound for Helena, left Cairo on the Mississippi, on the evening of the 4th of August, 1863; Major Grenawalt had been ordered to Memphis, Tennessee, to join the steamboat with eight other paymasters with their clerks.

Le Saint Géran - La légende de Paul et Virginie

Quelque intérêt qui s'attache aux personnages d'un roman, quels que soient l'art avec lequel l'écrivain a su les grouper et les sentiments qu'il leur a prêtés, le lecteur regrette presque toujours de s'être attendri des malheurs imaginaires le véritable moyen de le captiver, c'est de mettre devant ses yeux des héros qu

Naufrage du vaisseau le Saint Jacques (Santiago) sur les écueils Baixos de Juida

Au mois de Mai 1586, on reçut à Goa la confirmation de la nouvelle du naufrage du vaisseau amiral le Saint Jacques.

Loss of many men of the Portuguese frigate San Juan Prinicipe

On Sunday, the 5th instant, I witnessed a scene of horror I never can forget. A Portuguese frigate, the "San Juan Principe", captain RJF. Lobo, was reported to be wrecked on the east coast, about four miles from the Spanish lines.

Old Treasures and Shipwrecks News - Galleon Santiago El Grande

A small cache of emeralds and gold and silver coins was found in the sunken remains of an 18th-century Spanish galleon near Bimini this weekend...

Old Treasures and Shipwrecks News - Galleon Santissima Trinidad

It has been described as one of the world's greatest treasure hunts.

Naufrage d'Emmanuel Souza et de sa femme Eléonore Garcia Sala en 1553

Very Old Treasures - Her Majesty Ship Sussex

One February day in 1694, the bloated body of a British admiral washed up on the limestone shores of Gibraltar, clad in only his nightshirt.

Naufrage d'un vaisseau Portugais près le Cap-Comorin

Les faits qui composent cette relation nous ont été transmis par Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, célèbre voyageur français qui parcourut pendant quarante ans la Turquie, la Perse et l'Inde dans le Journal de ses voyages aux Indes

Old Treasures and Shipwreck News - The Vergulde Draeck

Many stories have been written about the Vergulde Draeck since her discovery. We will give here some additionnal information and the origin of her discovery.

Old Treasures and Shipwrecks News - HMS Victory

Early in July, a fleet of fourteen British ships of the line has assembled at Spithead; and Sir John Balchen hoisted his flag as commander-in-chief, on board the "Victory", 1st rate ship of 110 guns, the largest and finest ship in the navy.

The Dutch V.O.C Vliegenthart

The Netherlands in the late 1500s was one of the most powerful and wealthy nations in the world.