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Divers recently identified a long-failed ship that capsized almost 140 years ago.
Dominique Robinson, a former British Army officer based in Plymouth, England, has identified the wreck as SS Nantes. The ship was built in Glasgow, Scotland in 1874.
Robinson, a military helicopter pilot, told Jam Press, which collided with the German Theodor Ruger ship in 1888.
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“That was when it sank, In the aisle It transports from Liverpool to La Herble in France. [a] Coal freight,” Robinson told the press.
accident Proven to be fatalsince most of Nantes’ crew died in the English Channel.
Dominique Robinson, a former British Army officer shown on the left, has identified the wreck of SS Nantes thanks to the broken plate. (Jam Press)
“Sadly, almost everyone on the Nantes has passed away,” Robinson said.
“It drifted for a few hours, but before it finally went to the bottom, sadly, with a lot of it Crew on board. ”
Robinson pointed out that the three survived the wreck. They are two men who leapt on Theodore Ruger and another man who stayed in Nantes and tried to float the boat.
“Unfortunately, Nantes came down early in the morning about 10 hours later, and he was the only one to be picked up from there,” the explorer said.
“That’s pretty sad.”
The Cunard logo on the crushed plate helped to identify the ship on the right to the researchers. (Jam Press)
The ship remained invisible for almost 140 years. Last year, a local diving team came across a wreck, but its name had never been known.
The key to identifying the ship was a broken plate depicting the logo of the historic British cruise line, the Cunard Line.
“Of course [the plate] It is what gave us the most important clues. ”
To identify the ship, Robinson said he “trying to find a list of all the Cunard ships that have sunk.”
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“Then you try to narrow them down to relatively small and old,” he said.
“We obviously know where it sank, so if we can find information about the sinking and the shipwreck, it’s pretty easy to identify them all, to align them all.”
According to Robinson, the ship was sank from Liverpool on a journey to La Havre, France. At the time, they were transporting coal. (Jam Press)
Thanks to information from the UK Waterways Bureau, the team was also able to verify the length of the Nantes, which is approximately 260 feet.
Checking the length of the wreck, along with the Cunard Plate, was important to the ship’s identification card.
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“Of course [the plate] He gave us the most important clues,” he said.
The discovery is as follows: Marine Archaeologist Every year, countless shipwrecks are discovered around the world.
SS Nantes has been hidden under the sea since 1888. A fatal collision involving the ship killed everyone except three crew members. (Jam Press)
In June, French officials announced they had discovered it Shipwreck of the 16th century Record depth of local waters.
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At about the same time, Australian researchers identified the exact location Captain James Cook’s legendary ship It sank off the coast of my beloved New England resort town.
