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  • The wreck's shape echoed an airship's envelope, but there the similarity ended.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Adam Roberts 2010

  • The wreck's shape echoed an airship's envelope, but there the similarity ended.

    Alastair Reynolds, Terminal World (2010) Adam Roberts 2010

  • The frescoes and the wreck's surviving fragments, he claims, gave him enough detail to work out the number of rowers, the type and efficiency of sails and the sailing capacity.

    Sailing Against Conventional Wisdom Dalya Alberge 2010

  • Visitors enter the ship's belly, which contains a phenomenal sampling of the wreck's artifacts.

    The Art of Foreign Influence 2009

  • But according to the Spanish, both the wreck's location and the booty recovered from it clearly point to the Mercedes.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Jan 2008

  • But according to the Spanish, both the wreck's location and the booty recovered from it clearly point to the Mercedes.

    Odyssey Marine Exploration - Spanish Claim Update Jan 2008

  • Will the pop wreck's latest crisis cost her her children?

    CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2008 2008

  • Der Spiegel offered to finance the wreck's excavation in exchange for publication rights to the story.

    Books: Columbus's Last Voyage 2006

  • Eighteenth-century maps, and a sign on a local beach pointing to the wreck's probable location, led treasure hunter Barry Clifford and his salvage company, Maritime Explorations, Inc., to the site of Whydah in 1983.

    Loaded Guns, Barrels of Rum, and a Silk Ribbon 2006

  • According to project director Mark U. Wilde-Ramsing of East Carolina University, "the wreck's 15 cannons clearly exceeded what was reported on any shipwreck candidate known to have been lost in Beaufort Inlet during the eighteenth century other than the pirate flagship."

    Loaded Guns, Barrels of Rum, and a Silk Ribbon 2006

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