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Update: Tall Ship Zebu Declared a Wreck

Posted on May 25, 2021 by Rick SpilmanMay 25, 2021

Attempts to salvage the historic tall ship Zebu have failed. Last week, the 100′ long brigantine, built in Sweden in 1938, broke from its moorings and drifted onto the Holyhead New Harbour breakwater in Wales, where she became hard aground. … Continue reading →

Posted in Current, Lore of the Sea, Ships | Tagged breakwater, brigantine, Holyhead New Harbour, Wales, wreck, Zebu

Update: Alabama Shipwreck Not Schooner Clotilda, the Last Slave Ship

Posted on March 17, 2018 by Rick SpilmanMarch 17, 2018

At the end of January, we posted about a shipwreck that was suspected to be the remains of the schooner Clotilda, the last vessel to carry slaves to the United States. The wreck was roughly in the right place on … Continue reading →

Posted in Current, History, Lore of the Sea | Tagged Clotilda, Mobile River, slave ship, wreck
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