3 prehistoric logboats discovered in the Boyne by drone
Third logboat spotted in River Boyne in Drogheda using drone footage
The latest discovery is upstream of the Bridge of Peace
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Here's the CBC story on the DNA identification of a Franklin Expedition crew member.First DNA tests on a member of the Franklin Expedition Crew member
His Ship Vanished in the Arctic 176 Years Ago. DNA Has Offered a Clue.
I'm just reading Michael Palin's Erebus. A good read and hard to put down.Here's the CBC story on the DNA identification of a Franklin Expedition crew member.
DNA used to ID sailor from doomed 1845 Franklin Expedition with living relative
The story quotes several people involved in the study, who were professors at the University of Waterloo and Lakehead University, both in Ontario.
The man identified was Warrant Officer John Gregory of HMS Erebus. He was buried on King William Island, which is an island in the Canadian arctic roughly two thirds the size of Wales. The body had been found in 1859, buried in 1879, rediscovered in 1993, and then re-excavated recently to get DNA samples. He and two others are currently buried under a cairn at Erebus Bay.
The living relative they matched is apparently his great-great-great grandson, Jonathan Gregory, of Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
They have DNA from 27 members of the expedition, and they hope to identify more of them.
Ionic, ironic or iconic?
'The group searching for the remains of a 17th-century French ship says it has found what appears to be a colonial-era wreck in northern Lake Michigan. Photographs on Great Lakes Exploration Group’s website show the frame of a boat somewhere in the waters off the Garden Peninsula in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The group’s leader, Steve Libert, and his wife Kathie, released a book this week detailing historical information they have gathered over 40 years, explaining why they believe the wreck is the Griffin.
'Libert’s search has been a contentious one, involving a federal court battle with the State of Michigan that lasted more than a decade. A visit from France’s top marine archeologist in 2013 ended in a split among the researchers working on the site. The French team agreed with Libert that a beam of wood taken from the lake that June was likely the bowsprit of a ship. American scientists concluded it was probably a piece of a commercial fishing net. The beam was not attached to anything and no ship was found.
'Steve Libert resumed his search with members of his original team, friends he had met in Dayton, Ohio while learning to scuba dive in the early 1980s. In 2018, they dove on a location that Libert first located using Google satellite imagery, a site he says his crew had probably motored over in a boat “100 times.”
'Libert says numerous details about the site suggest a very old ship. He says the metal fasteners are not threaded. The wooden pegs are constructed in the manner of 17th-century shipbuilding and the nails are handmade of wrought iron. “There is nothing on that vessel that I can find that says, ‘that’s a modern-day vessel,” Libert said.'
Possible Resting Place of Great Lakes’ Most Iconic Shipwreck Unveiled With Photos and New Book
Steve Libert and his wife Kathie have been gathering historical information about the Griffin for over 40 years. Now, they think they've found it's final resting place.wdet.org
Another of the great explorers' relics.
Sir Ernest Shackleton’s iconic ship, Endurance, sank crushed by ice in the Weddell Sea in November 1915.
'The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust (FMHT) is planning an expedition – Endurance22 – to locate, survey and film the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s iconic ship, Endurance, which sank in the Weddell Sea in November 1915.
'Sir Ernest Shackleton, the renowned polar explorer, died on 5 January 1922 in Grytviken, South Georgia. 100 years later, the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust (fmht.co.uk), which in 2019 organised the successful search for the flagship of the German fleet sunk in the Battle of the Falklands in 1914, is planning an expedition to sail from Cape Town in February 2022 to locate, survey and film the wreck of his ship, Endurance.
'As the wreck is protected as a Historic Site and Monument under the umbrella of the Antarctic Treaty, the search will be non-intrusive. The aim will be to locate, survey and film Endurance, to bring the stories of Shackleton to new generations and to answer questions people have been asking since the ship sank in November 1915: Did the strength of construction mean the wreck is virtually intact or was it completely crushed in the ice? Are there organisms that will have consumed the hull? Will it be possible to glimpse glass photographic plates abandoned by the photographer, Frank Hurley? Will the cameras catch sight of biologist Robert Clark’s laboratory and sample jars?'
Endurance22: Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust organizes expedition to find and film Shackleton's ship sunk in Antarctica in 1915
The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust (FMHT) is planning an expedition – Endurance22 – to locate, survey and film the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s iconic ship, Endurance, which sank in the Weddell Sea in November 1915.en.mercopress.com
Dr John Shears and colleagues, however, are undaunted. Having been beaten on their last mission, they're returning.
The team will take different submersibles this time after the type of vehicle used on the previous quest went missing.