The 73-metre Rodondo left Adelaide on October 2, 1894, carrying passengers and cargo during the peak of the Western Australian gold rush. But just days later on October 7, 1894 it hit Pollock Reef off ...
In the spring of 1886, the three-master schooner F.J. King and crew left her berth in Morristown for her long sail and annual task of shipping cargo on the western Great Lakes. She was expected back ...
In 2008, miners sifting through the sands of Namibia’s Sperrgebiet — a restricted diamond mining zone near the Skeleton Coast — stumbled upon what looked like wooden beams and rusted metal. What they ...