Description: Shipwrecks.com is the longest-running website on the Internet devoted to shipwrecks. Shipwrecks.com is an information-packed hub to research wrecks of all time periods and locations, as well as a way to keep track of expeditions, job opportunities, and to learn about new books, wreck research & dive techniques, etc. We are updating our site and adding new features, so some older features are temporarily disabled. Stay tuned to shipwrecks.com!
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Shipwrecks.com typically comes up on the first page when you Google “shipwrecks.” That search gets over 75,000,000 results, so that’s impressive. We expect to be back at that level soon. Keep checking back to see our progress. SHIPWRECK DISCOVERIES BY Dr. E. Lee Spence : (click on this link to read about him) H.L. Hunley (1st submarine in history to sink a ship, lost in 1864) For more on the Hunley : • See also: The Marred History of the Hunley • See also: X-Ray magazine’s a
Georgiana (Civil War era, iron hulled, screw steamer) For more on the SS Georgiana : • See also: Discovery of the real Rhett Butler (i.e. meaning Spence’s identification of George Trenholm, a Charlestonian, who was a tall, handsome, shipping magnate, banker, and Treasurer of the Confederacy, who owned the SS Georgiana and her million dollar cargo, as the primary historical basis for the fictional Rhett Butler in Margaret Mitchell’s award-winning novel Gone With The Wind. )