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• A significant discovery has been made in the waters off Ayvalık, a district of Balıkesir, as part of the Inventory of Turkish Sunken-Ships Project: Blue Heritage (TUBEP).
• A 1,500-year-old trade shipwreck has been located, shedding light on ancient maritime trade in the region.

A 1,500-year-old trade shipwreck has been discovered off the coast of Ayvalik in Türkiye’s Balikesir province as part of the “Turkish Shipwreck Inventory Project: Blue Heritage,” reports Daily Sabah.

https://mfame.guru/1500-year-old-trade-shipwreck-found-off-turkiye/

• Iconic Ocean Liner SS United States Embarks on Final Journey.
• From Atlantic Champion to Gulf Reef: The SS United States Transformation.
• Historic Ship Heads to Gulf of Mexico for Artificial Reef Project.

In 1952, the SS United States was the world’s fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic Ocean eastbound in a mere three days and ten hours. Several decades on from this glorious run, however, this very ship will embark on its final leg-it will take it all the way to the bottom of the Gulf of...

https://mfame.guru/ss-united-states-final-voyage-becoming-an-artificial-reef/

• Auction Features Titanic Coal, Lusitania Watches, and Mary Rose Rope.
• Historic Shipwreck Memorabilia, Including Titanic Artifacts, Up for Sale.
• Maritime Archaeology Treasures from Shipwreck Museum Hit the Auction Block.

More than a century has passed since the Titanic tragically sank in April 1912, but now a piece of history from that famous disaster is available for collections. Lay‘s Auctioneers will start auctioning Titanic coal and other thousands of shipwreck artefacts beginning November...

https://mfame.guru/titanic-coal-and-rare-shipwreck-artefacts-up-for-auction/

More than 300-year-old onion glass bottles were found in a ship, part of the 1715 Treasure Fleet. The discovery was made in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Indian River County, reads an AOL news article.

The onion glass bottles are rare artefacts from the 1715 Treasure Fleet which comprised ships that transported treasure, gold, silver and other precious items between Spain and the Americas.

In July 1715, 11 of these Spanish ships were destroyed in a hurricane...

https://mfame.guru/300-year-old-glass-bottles-unearthed-from-historic-shipwreck/

The robots had identified the wreck of the “Ghost Ship of the Pacific,” the sole US Navy destroyer captured by Japanese forces during World War II. Once known as the USS Stewart or DD-224, the ship now lies in what is currently the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary, reports Times New World.

On August 1, a vessel released an unusual payload into the ocean approximately 70 miles northwest of San Francisco: three orange robots, each over 20 feet in length and...

https://mfame.guru/wreck-of-ghost-ship-of-the-pacific-found-off-california/

Oceanographers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute in California have made a remarkable discovery, uncovering a colossal underwater mountain in the Pacific Ocean. Located 1,448 kilometers off the coast of Chile, the seamount rises 3,109 meters from the ocean floor—equivalent to the height of four Burj Khalifas stacked on top of each other. This newly found seamount is part of an underwater mountain range that is home to a diverse array of marine life, including corals, fish, and rare species of...

https://mfame.guru/oceanographers-uncover-massive-seamount-teeming-with-new-marine-life/

RMS Titanic Inc., an Atlanta-based company with exclusive rights to recover the iconic shipwreck, recently conducted a 20-day expedition to explore the historic site. The crew used advanced technology such as LiDAR, sonar, and a hypermagnetometer to capture the wreck in detail. The new images reveal an alarming deterioration of the Titanic’s structure since its last image in 2022. A large section of the iconic railing surrounding the bow’s forecastle deck, famous in the 1997 blockbuster...

https://mfame.guru/expedition-uncovers-deterioration-of-titanic-wreck-and-recovers-historic-statue/

• The SS Warrimoo was a passenger and refrigerated cargo liner launched in 1892.
• It famously occupied two centuries simultaneously on December 31, 1899.
• The ship met its end in a collision with a French destroyer in 1918.

The SS Warrimoo was a passenger and refrigerated cargo liner, that became famous as a ship that existed for two centuries simultaneously, reports Marine Insight.

SS Warrimoo was launched on May 28, 1892. She was constructed by Swan Hunter, a shipbuilding...

https://mfame.guru/ss-warrimoo-the-liner-that-bridged-two-centuries/

• Australian billionaire Clive Palmer is reviving his ambitious project of constructing Titanic II, a modern replica of the iconic ship that met a tragic fate in 1912.
• After more than a decade since its inception, Palmer announced the relaunch at a press conference in Sydney Opera House.
• Titanic II aims to capture the opulence of the original vessel while incorporating modern safety standards.

Australian billionaire Clive Palmer has reignited his long-standing ambition to create Titanic II, a...

https://mfame.guru/billionaire-revives-titanic-as-a-ship-of-peace/

• A gold pocket watch belonging to John Jacob Astor, the richest passenger aboard the Titanic, was auctioned in the UK for a record-breaking £1.17 million ($1.46 million).
• The sale far surpassed the auctioneer’s estimate and marks the highest amount ever paid for an item linked to the historic 1912 maritime disaster.

The auction of a gold pocket watch belonging to John Jacob Astor, one of the wealthiest passengers aboard the ill-fated Titanic, made headlines as it fetched a record price of £1.17...

https://mfame.guru/record-price-titanic-passengers-gold-pocket-watch-sells-for-1-46-million/