New discoveries suggest Rhode Island shipwreck is Captain Cook's long-lost vessel after battle over ship's identity

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A replica of the Endeavour sits in the water
In this file photo, the Endeavour, a replica of Captain James Cook's ship of discovery, lies at anchor in Botany Bay in Sydney, Australia.

AP Photo/Mark Baker, File

The history of the San José galleon, the 300-year-old sunken ship behind a $10 billion legal battle, known as the 'Holy Grail of Shipwrecks'

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The San Jose galleon was believed to have been carrying billions worth of treasure when it was sunk in 1708.

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A discovery of more than 30,000 ancient Roman coins may point the way to a hidden shipwreck

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Divers unearth the coins from the seabed off the coast of Sardinia, Italy.

Italian Ministry of Culture

Shipwreck hunters found a schooner that sank in 1881 intact in Lake Michigan

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Shipwreck hunters found the intact remains of a schooner that sank in 1881 in Lake Michigan, they said Thursday.

REUTERS/Antonio Bronic

A sunken World War 1-era wooden ship potentially the size of a football field was discovered in a Texas river by a man on a jet ski after severe drought revealed the wreckage

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The wreckage found by Bill Milner in the Neches River; an example of a wooden boat produced under the Emergency Fleet Corporation in World War 1.
The wreckage found by Bill Milner in the Neches River; a wooden boat produced under the Emergency Fleet Corporation in World War 1.

Bill Milner/Ice House Museum

The shipwreck at the center of a battle between China and the Philippines

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The Sierra Madre is a warship turned military outpost intentionally grounded by the Philippines. Last week, the Chinese coast guard shot water cannons on a supply boat in an escalating battle over the former World War II ship.

This massive, crumbling shipwreck-turned-military station has become the latest flashpoint in tense US-China relations. Take a look inside.

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BRP Sierra Madre
The Philippines deliberately ran the Sierra Madre, a World War II-era warship, aground in 1999 to reinforce its sovereignty claims in the South China Sea.

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Two shipwrecks found in Lake Superior help finish the 109-year-old story of the 'darkest day in lumber history'

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An image of the shipwreck identifying the boat as property of Edward Hines Lumber Company
An image of one of the wrecked ships found in Lake Superior with the name of Edward Hines Lumbar Company on the side.

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500-year-old spices, including saffron and peppercorns, discovered in the king of Denmark's shipwreck

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Researcher Mikael Larsson examines samples of saffron found after nearly 500 years on the seabed on the wreck of the Gribshunden, a ship that sank in 1495 off Sweden's Baltic coast, as he works in a laboratory in Lund University, Sweden, March 2, 2023.
Researcher Mikael Larsson examines samples of saffron found after nearly 500 years on the seabed on the wreck of the Gribshunden, a ship that sank in 1495 off Sweden's Baltic coast, as he works in a la

Migrants who died in Italy shipwreck paid 8,000 euros each

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  • Bodies are washing ashore days after a migrant boat smashed to pieces near southern Italy.
  • Rescuers said the migrants came from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Somalia, and Syria.
  • The tragedy has sparked a debate in the EU about migration policies.
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