Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Ten Greatest Shipwrecks-- Part 2: SS Carpathia

QUEDAGH MERCHANT--  Indian merchant ship seized by pirate Captain Kidd in 1699.  Found 2007 off Dominican Republic.

HMS VICTORY--  (Not Lord Nelson's HMS Victory, a different one.)  100-gun ship-of-the-line sunk in a storm in the English Channel in 1744.  Wreck discovered in 2008.

USS MONITOR--

SS CARPATHIA--  Rescued survivors of the Titanic in 1912.  Sunk be German U-boat off Land's End, Britain in 1917.  Found 1999.

RHONE--  Sunk 1867

There was more information at the site.

--DaSunkCoot

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