Scientists Just Found the Missing Remains of a 395-Year-Old Shipwreck

Scientists Just Found the Missing Remains of a 395-Year-Old Shipwreck

The Fame was a Dutch merchant ship that wrecked in 1631. Parts of the ship resurfaced in 2013, but the hull had been missing for nearly four centuries.

Hidden Beneath the Sands, Archaeologists Find the Perfectly Preserved Remains of a 395-Year-Old Shipwreck

After nearly 400 years buried under the sands of southern England, the missing hull of the shipwreck Fame, a Dutch merchant ship that sank in 1631, has reemerged along Studland Beach. Parts of the ship had been unearthed in previous excavations, but the hull itself remained elusive until the recent storm washed up key fragments. This breakthrough completes the puzzle of one of the most significant shipwrecks in England’s maritime history. A Ship…