Thanks naturalman1975.
Posted on 05/13/2015 1:46:03 AM PDT by naturalman1975
THE $90 million search for MH370 has discovered “man made objects” almost four kilometres under the surface of the southern Indian Ocean, but they are not the missing Boeing 777.
Instead the debris is thought to be from an ancient shipwreck, comprising an anchor and other items.
Australian Transport Safety Bureau Operational Search Director Peter Foley said they were “obviously disappointed” the discovery was not the missing aircraft.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
Of interest?
Only if there’s some Swedish guy/Finnish lady love interest tied to the sunken coal ship, and Amelia Earhart’s plane on top of it.
Gee, I could writr headlines. Let’ give it a try ...
Microft Search Discovers Artichoke not a Creme Brulee
No doubt, I followed the wrong career path.
Definitely, looks not all that ancient, but clearly a pre-1900 sailing vessel, from the wood construction and the look of the anchor, probably pre-1850, maybe pre-1830.
Thanks naturalman1975.
Thanks naturalman1975.
Interesting!
FTA: “large number of sonar contacts lying very close to the sea floor, at a depth of around 3900 metres”
Umm they are on the seafloor. That anchor ain’t a hovering you know!
I did a search for the anchor and found a 1723 french design that looks like it. There are probably plenty like it though
Guiding Star. Wooden ship, 2013 tons. Built at Nova Scotia, 1852. Lbd 233 x 38 x 22.1 ft. Completed her first round trip to Melbourne in 1854. Left again for Melbourne on 9 January 1855 carrying 480 passengers and crew (some references say 546) and completely vanished without trace. That year vast icefields were sighted moving north into the Indian Ocean, and when the Guiding Star vanished it was believed she had hit an iceberg.
“She was last seen in the Southern Ocean by the American Ship MERCURY, on 12th February 1855. On 19th February, large icebergs were seen and narrowly avoided by the ship GEORGE MARSHALL, on the same route of GUIDING STAR, which at that time was about 36 hours behind the George Marshall.
Ever since never was heard of the Guiding star. It is thought that she was embayed in a huge icefield that had boundaries extending from 44°S-28°W to 40°S-20°W.
Many emigrant ships, including the GUIDING STAR promised a fast passage and they did that by going as far as possible South to catch up with favourable winds towards Australia.
From calculations, GUIDING STAR is assumed to have foundered in the night of 20th/21st February.”
Hey, nice find! And I was in the ballpark of the age, if this is indeed that ship!
Still wondering if that plane went North.
Pic: Australian Transport Safety Bureau
Picture: JACC/Australian Government
The search has previously detected shipping containers on the ocean floor. Pic: ATSB
That general shape was called “admiralty” in the page I found last night; the stock was wood until about 1830 when iron started to be used, and steel after about 1870.
OK Mr. Expert Researcher. ;-) Here is another one for you. If you read the comments to the article there was one that pointed out some of the passengers owned 80% of a new computer part patent. They asked “who owns the other 20%?”
Of course heirs would own the other 80%, but might be induced to sell out cheap, or there could have been a significant change in share price of a company that owned the patent, or something similar.
Those latitudes are called the Roaring Forties. The winds could speed passage to Australia, but sometimes that came with a price.
Thanks ct. I’m getting cold just thinking about it.
update:
The museum’s historians say that the second shipwreck, an iron ship found in December 2015, is most likely the West Ridge, a barque that was last seen heading from England to India in 1883.
How the Failed Search for MH370 Solved 19th Century Maritime Mysteries
By Sarah Pruitt // May 4, 2018
https://www.history.com/news/mh370-shipwreck-discovery
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