Ten Famous World Shipwrecks

From the March 15, 2011, Marine Insight. //// 1. TITANIC-- 1517 deaths, North Atlantic, 1912 // 2. ESTONIA-- 800 deaths, 1994, Baltic Sea // HMAS VAMPIRE--1942, sunk by Japanese aircraft // 4. ANDREA DORIA-- 1956, The "Mount Everest" of diving // 5. HMS VICTORY-- Not Nelson's Victory. 1744 English Channel, discovered 2008 //// 6. CARPATHIA-- The Titanic's rescue ship, sunk 1917 by a German U-boat. Found 1999 // 7. HMS MARY ROSE-- English, sunk near Isle of Wight // 9. VASCA-- Swedish, sunk 1628 on maiden voyage. Brought up in 1961. // 9. THE RHONE-- Lost in a hurricane by the British Virgin Islands in 1867, 120 lost // 10. SULTANA-- 1865 in the Mississippi River-- 1,800 deaths. Found in 1982 in a soybean field. //// Of course, more information at teh site. //// --Cooter