7. 6. 2001 Divers discover the ship of a famous pirate
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The ship of one of the most famous pirates was discovered by divers twenty years ago off the coast of Haiti. The sailing ship belonged to a British buccaneer named Henry Morgan. Experts have compared the find to the Titanic.
Henry Morgan lived in the seventeenth century, born in about 1635. He was of Welsh descent and was one of the most important leaders of the Caribbean pirates. But he subsequently became their enemy. He crossed over to the other side.
He joined the English service to suppress piracy. Eventually, he became executive governor of Jamaica. He was even said to have hidden a treasure worth £10 million on an island in the Caribbean.
The wreck was discovered off Haiti by a team led by Klaus Keppler. It was the first seventeenth-century pirate ship whose bag was found. "We are 98 per cent sure that it is Captain Morgan's ship," said Keppler at the time, who and his team searched the wreck for a total of six weeks. For a long time, they kept quiet about the discovery.
The sunken sailing ship was located just a few metres below the surface near a reef, which it had probably hit in a storm and wrecked. Most of the wreck is covered with sand. "It hides cannon, porcelain, and perhaps part of Morgan's great hoard of gold doubloons," Keppler noted.
The dive team had to suspend their research for a time as hurricane season was beginning. But they planned to return to the wreck in the fall and gradually retrieve it from the water. The cost of this work is expected to reach the astronomical sum of 1.6 billion crowns.
The discovery of the shipwreck, which belonged to Morgan, was also announced in 2011 by archaeologists from the University of Texas. They claimed to have discovered a shipwreck off the coast of Panama that almost certainly belonged to the famous 17th-century British pirate. The remains of his ship lay near the Lajas Reef. It was the ship Satisfaction. In age and appearance, it matched the cargo of one of the five ships Morgan lost off the reef in 1671.
"For us, this ship is a treasure, for her story is a treasure in itself. There are few better stories than Morgan's sacking of Panama City and the subsequent loss of five ships," said underwater archaeologist Fritz Hanselmann, who led the team of explorers.
Sources: www.lidovky.cz, www.novinky.cz, https://news.co.cr/
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