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Shipwreck found 120 years after bodies of crew washed ashore

In July 1904, the steamship SS Nemesis was transporting coal to Melbourne, Australia, when it ran into a powerful storm and vanished. All 32 people on board were considered lost, and in the weeks that followed, the bodies of crewmembers and debris from the iron-hulled ship washed ashore, but the location of the 240-foot vessel […]

Race to salvage mysterious shipwreck that washed ashore in Canada

A shipwreck believed to date from the 19th century has washed up on the snow-covered shores of Canada’s Atlantic island province of Newfoundland, attracting a bevy of onlookers and archaeologists probing its mysterious past. Now local residents and scientists are racing to study and preserve the wreck before it disappears back into the sea. Over the past […]

Shipwreck washed up in Newfoundland suspected to be from 1800s

Jan. 30 (UPI) — Researchers in Canada are hoping to identify a shipwreck that washed up in southwestern Newfoundland and appears to be from the 1800s. Residents near J.T. Cheeseman Provincial Park discovered the large chunk of an old wooden hull in the shallow waters near Cape Ray, as well as some timbers that washed […]

Crews removing sailboat that washed ashore in Jacksonville Beach in October

Crews came Tuesday to remove a sailboat that washed ashore on Jacksonville Beach in October. Heavy machinery was brought onto the beach to dismantle the boat. Action News Jax told you last week the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission issued a warrant for the boat’s owner, John Rehberg. According to court records, he failed […]