286 Items Tagged

Shipwrecks

Ventnor, England

Longshoreman's Museum

An unusual seafront museum hides behind an unassuming Ventnor giftshop.

Stockholm, Sweden

Shipwreck of Kastellholmen

At low tide, you can see the remains of a 17th-century ship just off a Stockholm island.

Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, September 2014

Wonder Is Everywhere: A Giant Burger, a Missing Warhol, and More From Around the Web

Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.

April White April 12, 2024

Toronto, Ontario

RMS Empress of Ireland Monument

The Salvation Army's monument to those who lost their lives in a 1914 shipwreck near the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River.

Edro III Shipwreck

Edro III Shipwreck

While most shipwrecks are submerged, this ship in Cyprus ran ashore.

Southampton, England

Titanic Postal Workers Memorial

Dedicated to the five postal workers who died aboard the doomed ocean liner, this plaque was made from a spare propeller from the Titanic.

Rimel Beach

Menzel Jemil, Tunisia

Rimel Beach

An eerie ship cemetery with gunfire as a soundtrack.

All illustrations: John Mata for Atlas Obscura

The Atlas Obscura Crossword: Don't Get Wrecked

AO Puzzles February 26, 2024

HMS <em>Terror</em>, depicted here in an anonymous drawing, and HMS <em>Erebus</em> were locked in ice for over a year. All hands were lost.

'Terror Camp' Could Be a Glimpse of the Future of Fandom and Scholarship

“It’s academia that feels criminally fun!”

Elizabeth Minkel January 30, 2024

Diving with a Purpose is a marine archaeology group searching for a shipwreck that once carried enslaved Africans.

Podcast: The Guerrero

Searching for enslaved history once swept away with the tides.

The Podcast Team January 29, 2024

A school of grunts on a sunken World War II German submarine in the Atlantic Ocean off North Carolina.

From Shark 'Rest Stops' to Living Reefs, Shipwrecks Teem With Life

When vessels such as the WWII tanker E.M. Clark sink, they begin a second life as habitat for a diverse ecosystem.

Avery Paxton January 15, 2024

The Northern bald ibis, 'waldrapp' in German, seen in 2018.

Wonder Is Everywhere: Silk Dress Secret, the Last Lightkeeper, and More From Around the Web

Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.

April White January 5, 2024

Over time water has a way of turning wrecks into otherworldly archaeological sites.

The Year in Wrecks, Lost Ships, and Underwater Discoveries

From unexpected treasure in Ukraine to a unique relic of the American Revolution, Captain Santa’s lost ship to digital dugouts.

Gemma Tarlach December 27, 2023

Mother-daughter opera singers Givonna Joseph (left) and Aria Mason (right) founded OperaCreole in 2011 to stage the forgotten works of New Orleans’s Creole composers of color.

Meet the Black Divers, Bakers, and Truck Drivers Making History in 2023

From New Orleans's unappreciated musical genius to the search for a lost shipwreck off Florida, we highlight our favorite Black History stories of 2023.

Roxanne Hoorn December 26, 2023

SS Thistlegorm

The wreck of a World War II cargo ship has become an unintentional time capsule at the bottom of the Red Sea.

Nicknamed the "Christmas Tree Boat," the evergreen-laden <em>Rouse Simmons</em> disappeared beneath Lake Michigan waters in November 1912.

The ‘Christmas Tree Boat’ Shipwreck That Devastated 1912 Chicagoans

Marine archaeologists are beginning to understand what really happened to Captain Santa's ill-fated ship.

Jonathan Feakins December 13, 2023

Newfoundland, known for its thick fog and beautifully stark landscape, seems a fitting locale for the mysterious 'Isle of Demons,' said to exist just off Newfoundland's northern tip.

The Phantom Island That Haunted 16th-Century Newfoundland

The ‘Isle of Demons' was said to be overrun with ghosts and ghouls.

Shoshi Parks December 7, 2023

A rusty shipdeck sits submerged in the sand along a beach

Manzanillo, Costa Rica

Yicel Shipwreck

An intentionally grounded cargo ship remains half-buried in the sand.