In fact, the Nuestra Senora de Atocha was laden down with an obscene amount of treasure for her voyage from Havana to Spain, but was sunk by a hurricane on the way. The James Craig is the oldest three-masted barque in the world still sailing, and this stunning tall ship was actually sunk in Now, it is back on top of the waves now in Sydney, Australia. This ship was a cargo vessel built in , and spent her early years sailing around Cape Horn, before heading to Australia.
After being sunk in , when newer, faster ships put her out of business, the James Craig was raised in After decades of repair, the James Craig is now restored and is even available for tours and functions. Briefly holder of the title of the largest ship in the world, the Lusitania became famous not because of the sinking, but because it was attacked illegally, being a non-military vessel, fired on without warning.
Nearly souls were lost, and now the rapidly decaying wreck lies off the coast of Ireland, where salvage workers continue to attempt to bring artifacts to the surface before they are destroyed completely by the water.
She was unlucky at the start, and her first two voyages were plagued with disaster; on the first, the crew mutinied, and on the second, she was caught in a cyclone. Now, the Star of India calls San Diego home, and still sails on a regular basis. Found in , the ship was originally built in , and was sunk by the British in during a battle. The gold and silver on board is now worth billions of dollars.
The last remaining US wooden whaling ship still sailing, the Charles W Morgan dates back to , when it was part of a fleet thousands strong.
She managed 37 voyages each taking years to complete , and made history with a 38 th in , after being fully restored. A National Historic Landmark since , the Charles W Morgan is now usually found at port, used to teach the history of whaling and ocean voyages - and comes with some thrilling tales, including surviving attacks by cannibals well, so they say , hurricanes, and dozens of dangerous voyages.
The lesser known sister ship to the Titanic, the Britannic fared a little better than her sister, lasting a year at sea before sinking. She was also sunk with far less fanfare, as the Britannic was requisitioned by the military and sunk during WWI. Originally intended as a cruise ship like the Titanic itself , she became instead a hospital ship, and was brought down in The wreck itself is surprisingly well-preserved, and many expeditions have been made to explore her remains on the ocean floor including filming, and testing to compare her preservation to that of the Titanic.
Built in , the USS Constitution was in active service for over a century, and to celebrate years afloat, was fully restored so that she would be able to sail all by herself! However, this old girl is definitely not going to be making regular voyages, and is now moored at a Navy Yard in Boston, where visitors can take tours and visit a museum dedicated to the ship and her history.
This warship is one of the more recent entries on the list, and was one of many sunk during WWII she went down in In many ways, this is a comparatively unremarkable sinking although it came with severe loss of life, as only one soldier on board survived … but there is one thing that makes the SS Gairsoppa stand out: the treasure.
She may not have been a pirate ship, but there was plenty of treasure to be found at this wreck, because the ship was carrying a huge amount of silver. However, a wreck was found during a search that lasted from to , believed to be the HMS Sussex, and in , permission was given for the wreck to be explored and the treasure recovered. However, due to constant legal issues, the project has been abandoned for now, leaving the treasure unrecovered. According to Marie Szaniszlo of the Boston Herald , the team unearthed one complete skeleton and portions of five other sets of remains.
Some of the bones had been broken, likely when the ship capsized, crushing its passengers. Discovered embedded in a concretion, the anonymous pirate died with a pistol in his hand and metal—likely gold—stashed in his pocket, Clifford told the Times.
The only authenticated pirate wreck in the world, the Whydah boasts a storied history. The bodies of crew members eventually washed up on the beach, but another 43—including Bellamy—seemingly went down with the ship.
Once a respected privateer, Captain William Kidd set sail in with the assignment of hunting down pirates in the Indian Ocean. But he soon turned pirate himself, capturing vessels such as the Quedagh Merchant and killing a subordinate with a wooden bucket. He was then tried and executed, and his decaying body was displayed from the banks of the River Thames as a warning to other pirates.
Born Edward Teach, Blackbeard intimidated enemies by coiling smoking fuses into his long, braided facial hair and by slinging multiple pistols and daggers across his chest.
After laying low for a few months in North Carolina, Blackbeard was killed in battle with the British Navy. Legend holds that he received 20 stab wounds and five gunshot wounds before finally succumbing.
The so-called Golden Age of Piracy, of which Blackbeard was a major part, would only last a few more years. But countless books, plays and movies—from Treasure Island to Pirates of the Caribbean —would later bring a romanticized version of that era squarely into the public eye. John Rackam, better known as Calico Jack, received a pardon for previous piracy acts in Nonetheless, he headed back out to sea the following year after seizing a gun sloop from Nassau harbor in the Bahamas.
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