30 Beautifully Haunting Shipwrecks From Around The World

30 Beautifully Haunting Shipwrecks From Around The World


Naval history is full of fatal accidents and wartime losses. Even knowing that, it’s astonishing to think that, according to a United Nations report, there are more than three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor. Of course, most of them will languish, unexplored and invisible forever, but, fortunately for us, many of them have been catalogued and photographed. These are some of our favourites.


19th century shipwreck in northern Gulf of Mexico


Photo: NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program


The wreckage of the American Star (SS America), Fuerteventura, Canary Islands


Photo: Wollex/Wikimedia Commons

The Dimitrios, at Laconia (near Gythio, Greece)


Photo: N1RK4UDSK714/Wikipedia

LST Wreckage, submerged in waters of West Loch near Waipio Peninsula, Pearl City, Honolulu County, Hawaii


Photo: Library Of Congress

Coastal steamer LAL-KI wrecked on Point Augusta, Alaska, c1917


Photo: Library Of Congress

The infamous Costa Concordia lies stricken off the shore of the island of Giglio, Italy


Photo: Tullio M. Puglia/Getty Images

Ushuaia harbour, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina


Photo: Teo Romera

Off the island of Gramvousa, Crete, Greece


Photo: Joachim S. Müller

Bay of Praia, Cape Verde, Africa


Photo: David Gil

One of many shipwrecks around Port of Spain’s Harbour, Trinidad And Tobago


Photo: Mark Morgan

Quail Island, New Zealand


Photo: Greg Hewgill

The Maheno Shipwreck at Fraser Island, Australia


Photo: Régis Matthey

Hawaii


Photo: pmm3

Winds Raking the husk of the SS Gairloch, Oakura, Taranaki, New Zealand


Photo: Dave Young

Panama


Photo: Al Butler

Remains of the SS Falcon, Langdon Bay, Kent, United Kingdom


Photo: Squirmelia

Olivia. Ushuaia, Argentina


Photo: *christopher*

Roatán, Islas de la Bahía, Honduras


Photo: Steve Lyon

Shipwreck on the Mississippi, Lasalle, St Louis, MO, US


Photo: Paul Sableman

Western Sahara


Photo: David Holt

Tarfaya, Morocco


Photo: camera_obscura [busy]

Where ships go to die: Ushuaia, Argentina


Photo: *christopher*

Ushuaia, Argentina


Photo: Jason Jones

Wrecked ship on the beach, Guam


Photo: leevin3

The Peter Iredale, Oregon


Photo: Sarah Lynch

Jafrabad, Chittagong, Bangladesh


Photo: Stéphane M. Grueso

The Lundoge and many more died at the infamous Shipwreck Beach, Praia Santiago, Angola


Photo: mp3ief

The Panagia F. at Shipwreck Beach, Praia Santiago, Angola


Photo: mp3ief

The Mary D. Hume abandoned on the Rogue River in Gold Beach, Oregon


Photo: Brian Hoffman

Icelandic shipwreck


Photo: Ron Brinkmann


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