24 July,2025 08:21 AM IST | London | Agencies
The wreck was discovered by a boy in February 2024. PIC/AFP
Researchers announced Wednesday that the ribs of a wooden ship poking through the dunes of a remote Scottish beach very likely are part of the Earl of Chatham - an 18th-century warship that saw action in the American War of Independence before a second life hunting whales in the Arctic, and then a stormy demise in the year 1788.
The wreck was discovered in February 2024 by a schoolboy on a run after a storm swept away sand covering it on Sanday - one of the rugged Orkney Islands that lie off Scotland's northern tip. It excited interest on the island of 500 people, whose history is bound with the sea and its dangers. Around 270 shipwrecks have been recorded around the 50-sq-km island since the 15th century.
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