Horror Shipwreck Stories You Won't Believe

The teenage runaways showed remarkable resourcefulness—building a hut out of palm fronds, establishing  a garden with bananas and beans, and setting up a roster to keep a lookout for passing ships. But when he received encouragement from the Lord, he openly shared his experience to encourage the others. He gave thanks to God for the bread in front of everyone and then ate, setting the example. If we panic and fall apart in a storm, they learn to be fearful. If you liked this story,sign up for the weekly bbc.com features newsletter, called “The Essential List”.
That was bad news for the dude who ran the lighthouse because no one could imagine that a ship as mighty as the Victory could be lost unless it was someone's fault. According to The Telegraph, the lighthouse keeper was accused of failing to keep the lights on, and then he was court-martialed and vilified and probably went to his grave with people spitting on his coffin. Finally, in 2008, Victory's remains were found a full 60 miles west of Alderney, thus exonerating the lighthouse keeper more than 250 years too late. In 1704, Selkirk was navigating an English galley, the Cinque Ports, around Cape Horn. Disease plagued the crew, there was insufficient food and the hull was being eaten alive by worm. When they stopped at the windswept Pacific island of Juan Fernandez to rest and take on supplies, Selkirk demanded they abandon ship and wait  for help.

Around 80 people eventually make it to Jakarta with Captain Francisco Pelsaert out of the original 341 who first left Holland aboard the Batavia. They clambered aboard and told the crew how they'd run away from boarding school and ended up shipwrecked. Peter radioed to Nuku'alofa, the capital of Tonga, to check out their story. And there's also war over who would get to tell the history and efforts by those in power to cover up the scandalous truth and the sins of the nation's past. And so I had for me the story that took place in the 18th century. For his latest book, Grann tells NPR's Steve Inskeep he turned to the time of the British Empire and the tale of the HMS Wager, which was wrecked off the  coast of Chile.
Tasmanian journalist Trevor Sutton, who covered the story in 1973, said the then-transport department had a duty of care to look after the crew onboard the Blythe Star but failed. "They didn't know what route the Blythe Star had taken … the days went by and there was no sign of the ship," he said. All 10 crew — George Cruickshank, Ken Jones, John Eagles, John Sloan, Stan Leary, Malcolm McCarroll, Cliff Langford, Mick Power, Alfred Simpson and Mick Doleman — escaped the sinking, scrambling into a small inflatable life raft.

The USS Cyclops was quickly commissioned when the USA joined the First World War, and launched in May of 1910. It originally served along the East Coast of the United States before being handed over to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service in January 1918. Having survived many battles during the war, the Indianapolis met its ultimate fate just after a top-secret mission. It had just completed a high-speed delivery of uranium and other bomb components meant for “Little Boy'' to Tinian Naval Base when it was ambushed by the Japanese submarine I-58. From 1768 to 1771, Cook used the HMS Endeavour to explore the Pacific Ocean.
A fisherman based in Tillamook County, Craig Andes, told The Astorian he knew he had found something important when he found beams of dense wood inside caves just north of Manzanita in 2019. Four observation missions using a remotely operated vehicle were sent to the wreck at a depth of almost 950 meters off Colombia's Caribbean coast, the army said in a statement late Monday. Having originally been booked aboard another ship that separated parents and children, Laroche and his wife made the decision to change to the ill-fated Titanic instead. So for many, it comes as a surprise that there were any Black people at all on that ship’s maiden and only voyage. Books on boats don’t come much more harrowing than this; the crew was forced to endure brutal conditions while stranded at sea. With plenty of glamor and panache, Miss Aldridge Regrets is one of the most stylish books about boats and music novels written in recent years.

He could have made the winds fair and had them blow in the right direction. He could have said to Satan, "This far and no farther. Take your hand off. Stop this hindrance!" But he deliberately did not do it. Again, Scripture suggests some reasons why God sometimes does not intervene to prevent Satan's work.
Fisherman also believed that traveling with bananas on board meant they would not catch any fish. This belief may have stemmed from the fact that ships transporting bananas had to sail as quickly as possible or the bananas would spoil before reaching their Shipwreck Stories destination. Because the ships were sailing so quickly, fisherman attempting to fish by trolling rarely caught anything. Bright sunlight pierces a shallow World War II shipwreck lying off the South Pacific island of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.

An amazing addition to the list of shipwrecks of the world, this particular discovery has historians thrilled with the amazing store of information to be unearthed from it. This shipwreck was discovered by archaeologists in August 2011, somewhere near the port city of Vlora, about 140 kilometres southwest of the capital Tirana. Tommy Thompson, a former deep-sea treasure hunter, is seen in an undated photo provided by the Delaware County Sheriffs Office. The gold rush-era ship sank in a hurricane off South Carolina in 1857 with thousands of pounds of gold aboard, contributing to an economic panic. The shipwreck was discovered in a busy shipping lane in 2005 when a diving group happened upon the site, and its national importance was recognised when it was given protection under the Protection of Wrecks Act in 2008.
Researchers speculate that a device that was previously discovered there, which was named after the island, may have been used for navigation and astronomy; it has even been called “the first computer” by some researchers. Mapping the presence of archeology in public discourse may be useful to understanding how society talks about archeology. The early 21st century has been haunted by war, plague, famine, inequality, and catastrophic events related to global warming, which are intensifying every year that passes.