Brilliant!
Find the wrecks?
Brilliant!
Posted on 02/05/2006 3:12:21 PM PST by blam
Oh, that's interesting. Maybe they will get more information on these wrecks eventually, then.
Did they find Pierce Brosnan's acting career?
They will have a lot of ships to get through!!
Perhaps in the South China Sea?
Yup. 1198 listed on the monument.
HUGE shipwreck buff. :-)
Thanks...hope you are well.
I'm not too bad.
Lusitania was left to fend for herself despite a Uboat being known to be in the area despite the British having escorted a ship carrying mules a week earlier. Britain wanted the US in the war. The ship was indeed carrying munitions though the ammunition was actually military ordnance the paperwork described it as 'sport ammunition-not likely to explode in bulk'.
Wrecks around irregular coasts with storms and tides are not uncommon. The USA had its share of Moon Cursers and the coasts of England and Ireland had many who displayed false lights so as to lure ships to their doom and loot them. English law made the Registrar of Wrecks the owner of a ship's cargo if 'any man or beast' survived, so villagers often made sure that sailors did not survive. Often local constabulary sided with those whose living 'came from the sea'. It is only fairly recent in history that we've come to view "harvesting the sea's bounty" to be limited to fish and not to include ships cargoes.
Everyone associates the Irish with potatoes perhaps, but the Irish were great seafarers, ate mutton and used slaves to tend their sheep.
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Brilliant!
Find the wrecks?
Brilliant!
Amazing. That could mean there are how many hundreds of thousands worldwide?
Imagine the treasure trove of historical information and precious commodities!
The Times has fallen far, if they have this litte regard for accuracy. Over 700 folks (one source says 761) were saved.
There are thousands more wrecks from ancient times that will never make it on to the inventory.I'll go out on a limb right now and say some Roman-era craft of the Britons/Irish are down there. :')
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Balding_Eagle: Amazing. That could mean there are how many hundreds of thousands worldwide?I heard a figure just for the Great Lakes that I worked out in my head to one sinking every six days. :')
Of all the ships ever built, most have sunk.
Roman-era craft?I agree.Hopefully well preserved.
Dunno for sure, but I don't think any of the Gallic/British boats have turned up; the Divine Julius had to deal with sea-based hit and run (or seaborne retreat without battle) during the Gallic Wars, so bunches of them must have gone down sometime thereafter. :')
Lusitania was left to fend for herself despite a Uboat being known to be in the area despite the British having escorted a ship carrying mules a week earlier. Britain wanted the US in the war. The ship was indeed carrying munitions though the ammunition was actually military ordnance the paperwork described it as 'sport ammunition-not likely to explode in bulk'.True about the munitions. Wilson's Sec'y of State told Wilson that the disaster had turned out to be what they'd suspected. The US didn't enter the war at that time (1915), waiting until after the 1916 election, in which Wilson had jailed his Socialist opponent Eugene V. Debs, and run with the slogan, "he kept us out of war." Wilson was sworn in March 4, 1917, and the declaration of war was asked for 2 April, 1917,
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