Shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Shipwrecks in the Mediterranean The French battleship Bouvet was a pre-Dreadnought battleship of the French Navy, (probably) named after French admiral François Joseph Bouvet, launched in 1896 and sunk during World War I. ...more on Wikipedia about "French battleship Bouvet"
INS Dakar (77-צ) was originally a British T class submarine built for the Royal Navy by H.M. Dockyard in Davenport. She was launched on 28 September 1943 as HMS Totem (P352) and served the Royal Navy until she was purchased by Israel, along with two of her T-class sisters, in 1965. She was commissioned into the Israeli Navy on 10 November 1967 as Dakar (" swordfish" in the Hebrew language) under the command of Lieutenant Commander Ya'acov Ra'anan. ...more on Wikipedia about "INS Dakar (77-צ)"
The Kyrenia ship is the wreck of a 4th century Greek merchant ship. The ship was discovered by Greek-Cypriot diver Andreas Kariolou in 1967 and salvaged close to Kyrenia in Cyprus in the early 1970s. The ship was excavated by Michael Katzev of the U.S. Institute of Nautical Archaeology and is the oldest Greek ship ever discovered. The find was extensively covered by the National Geographic Society. It is the only preserved ship for Greece's Classical Age. The ship was considered to be very well preserved with approximately 75% perserved. Its new home became a museum in Kyrenia Castle. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kyrenia ship"
The shipwreck of Mahdia was found off the coast of Tunisia in 1907. It is of late Iron age date (100 BC). It contained lead lingots that, according to their isotope-composition, seem to come from the Sierra de Cartagena in Spain. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mahdia shipwreck"
Minerve was a French submarine, one of nine of the Daphne class. The relatively small (190 feet) submarine was an experimental missile-carrying submarine with a diesel motor. She had a maximum speed of 16 knots. ...more on Wikipedia about "Minerve"
The SMS Breslau was a Magdeburg-class light cruiser of the German Kaiserliche Marine, launched on 16 May 1911 and commissioned in 1912. ...more on Wikipedia about "SMS Breslau"
The Uluburun Shipwreck is a well-documented late 14th Century BC shipwreck of the Late Bronze Age period, discovered off the south coast of Turkey in the Mediterranean Sea near the city of Kaş. A Turkish sponge diver found it in 1982. It was recovered using techniques of underwater excavation in 11 consecutive campaigns of 3-4 months duration each from 1984 to 1994. ...more on Wikipedia about "Uluburun Shipwreck"
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