HALLOWELL — Tom Desjardin is looking for an old ship. Actually, it’s a very old shipwreck, having sunk in 1635. The Hallowell resident and director of the state’s Bureau of Parks and Lands learned about the Angel Gabriel through talking to University of Maine professor Warren Riess, who spent years in the 1970s trying to […]
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Receding flood waters reveal York shipwreck again
A shipwreck that appears from time to time on Short Sands Beach in York was uncovered by rough seas that pounded the shore all weekend. The skeleton of the ship, believed to be more than 160 years old, was clearly visible in the sand Monday morning, according to the York Police Department. What’s left of the […]
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‘I’m a goner’: El Faro’s last hours as ship sails into storm
This undated image made from a video released April 26, 2016, by the National Transportation Safety Board shows the stern of the sunken ship El Faro. Amid howling winds, blinding squalls and massive waves, the freighter El Faro and its crew struggled for survival _ unaware that their course was taking them directly into the […]
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El Faro’s tragic ending ‘burned’ in investigator’s mind
This April 11, 2017 photo provided by the NTSB shows investigator Brian Young at an undisclosed location. Young is the chief investigator for the NTSB into the sinking of the freighter El Faro in the Bahamas on Oct. 1, 2015. The 790- foot ship sank after losing propulsion in Hurricane Joaquin. The bodies of the […]
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Recent dive at site of 1717 pirate ship wreck off Cape Cod points to more sunken treasure
BOSTON (AP) — Fog was swallowing his ship’s bow, the winds were picking up and undersea explorer Barry Clifford figured he needed to leave within an hour to beat the weather back to port. It was time enough, he decided, for a final dive of the season over the wreck of the treasure-laden pirate ship, […]