For Y'all Data - Historic Danish Warship Establish At The Bottom Of The Kattegat Sea

After searching for over a decade, a squad of divers accept discovered the long-lost wreck of the Printz Friedrich, the Danish warship that sank inward the Kattegat over 200 years ago.

Lead musket balls on the ocean bed [Kim Schmidt/Undervandsgruppen]

The divers used former maritime maps as well as high-tech equipment to uncovering the 52-metre ship-of-the-line, which went downwards inward fossil oil seas nigh Læsø inward September 1780 amongst 667 sailors as well as seventy cannons on board.

The squad of divers, led past times Kim Schmidt, had searched over 104 foursquare km of seabed, making to a greater extent than than 200 dives inward vain inward hard weather earlier locating the wreck.

Lead musket balls from the wreck, later restoration [Kim Schmidt/Undervandsgruppen]

“I don’t actually know what to compare it to. New honey perhaps. Just when y'all encounter the daughter as well as teach the get-go kiss. Yes! It happened,” Schmidt told TV2 News.

The diving squad flora a lot of items inward the wreckage that could render insight into the historic ship, such every bit its origin. Aside from musket balls as well as a Pb plate amongst a purplish crown stamp, the wreck besides yielded rapier butts made from brass.

A model of the warship Printz Friedrich [Credit: Karl Ingwer Malcha/TV2]

“These items aren’t that amazing alone, but the uncovering of the ship-of-the-line is unique. It was a massive disaster for the Danish Navy. When Printz Friederich ran aground inward 1780, a 5th of the navy’s capacity was lost,” Simon Kyhn-Madsen, a curator amongst Læsø Museum, told TV2 News.

“It’s something that was kept tranquility inside the ranks of the admiralty, as well as thence countries similar England – which the Danes had a strained human relationship amongst – wouldn’t grab air current of it.”

Schmidt hopes to teach plenty funds to brand a case digging of the send on the seafloor.

Amazingly, given the times, merely nigh 8 sailors lost their lives inward the sinking thank y'all to considerable rescue efforts using boats from nation as well as Printz Friedrich’s ain lifeboats.

Source: The Copenhagen Post [November 13, 2018]


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