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Authors: David Gibbins
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Decorative marble with a cross from the Marzamemi Church Wreck.
A large jar filled with Changsha bowls from the Belitung wreck.
Chinese Changsha bowls in the cargo of the ninth-century AD Belitung wreck, Indonesia.
The eleventh-century
AD
Roskilde Viking ship reconstructed, with the surviving hull timbers visible.
The port side gun-deck of the
Mary Rose
, reconstructed using artefacts found in the wreck.
The excavated hull of the
Mary Rose
, sunk in the Solent off England in 1545.
Copper-alloy Corpus Christi discovered by David Gibbins on the wreck of the
Santo Cristo di Castello
, probably from the workshop of Guglielmo della Porta in the sixteenth century. Height 8 centimetres.
David Gibbins with a cannon off the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall, England, site of the wreck of the
Royal Anne Galley
in 1721.
Ten-metre waves break over Man O'War rock off Lizard Point in Cornwall, England, site of the wreck of
the Royal Anne Galley.
Three Portuguese gold âmoidores' from the wreck of the
Royal Anne Galley
, dated 1702, 1706 and 1719.
Silver fork and knife from the
Royal Anne Galley
bearing the crest of Lord Belhaven, who perished in the wreck.
HMS
Erebus
visible on the seabed with Parks Canada underwater archaeologists on the surface.
Bottles in a storage room or dispensary on HMS
Terror.