Valuable shipwreck in sand bank off South Wexford coast

To better understand the shipwreck of Admiral Walker's fleet off Pointe-aux-English: this is the mission given to a team of researchers from the University of Rimouski (UQAR). Little by little, their work allows us to lift the veil on this important event, which occurred in 1711, but which arouses great interest throughout the world. Back to the events. In 1711, the survival of New France was threatened with the arrival of a war fleet from Bosto…

Valuable shipwreck in sand bank off South Wexford coast

The remains of a shipwrecked vessel from the eighteenth century may have been located off the South Wexford coast The British Merchant ship the Recovery was on route from London to Dublin in 1787 with valuable Italian marble statues and other treasures when it hit a storm with the loss of its captain and six […] The post Valuable shipwreck in sand bank off South Wexford coast appeared first on South East Radio.