Pirates & Shipwrecks

Famous wrecks, pirate ports and sea legends, placed where they happened. Each card has a timeline and sources.

Cards

• RMS Titanic · Ocean liner, 1912 · North Atlantic, south of Newfoundland
• RMS Lusitania · Ocean liner, 1915 · Off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland
• Mary Rose · Tudor warship, 1545 · The Solent, England
• Vasa · Swedish warship, 1628 · Stockholm harbour, Sweden
• Bismarck · German battleship, 1941 · North Atlantic, west of France
• HMS Hood · British battlecruiser, 1941 · Denmark Strait
• Endurance · Polar expedition ship, 1915 · Weddell Sea, Antarctica
• SS Edmund Fitzgerald · Lake freighter, 1975 · Lake Superior
• USS Arizona · US battleship, 1941 · Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
• SS Andrea Doria · Italian liner, 1956 · Off Nantucket, Massachusetts
• HMHS Britannic · Hospital ship, 1916 · Kea Channel, Aegean Sea
• USS Monitor · Ironclad warship, 1862 · Off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
• HMS Erebus · Arctic expedition ship, 1848 · Wilmot and Crampton Bay, Nunavut, Canada
• Batavia · Dutch East India ship, 1629 · Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia
• Nuestra Señora de Atocha · Spanish galleon, 1622 · Florida Keys, USA
• 1715 Treasure Fleet · Spanish fleet, 1715 · Off Florida's Atlantic coast
• SS Central America · Gold rush steamship, 1857 · Off the Carolinas, Atlantic
• San José galleon · Spanish galleon, 1708 · Off Cartagena, Colombia
• Antikythera wreck · Roman-era ship, c. 70 BCE · Antikythera island, Greece
• Uluburun wreck · Bronze Age ship, c. 1300 BCE · Off Kaş, Turkey
• SS Thistlegorm · British cargo ship, 1941 · Red Sea, Egypt
• Kronan · Swedish warship, 1676 · Off Öland, Sweden
• Santa María · Columbus's flagship, 1492 · Near Cap-Haïtien, Haiti (wreck not found, location approximate)
• HMS Bounty · Royal Navy ship, 1790 · Bounty Bay, Pitcairn Island
• Nassau · Pirate republic, 1706 to 1718 · New Providence, Bahamas
• Tortuga · Buccaneer base, 1600s · Île de la Tortue, Haiti
• Port Royal · Pirate port, 1600s · Kingston Harbour, Jamaica
• Blackbeard's last fight · Pirate captain, 1718 · Ocracoke Inlet, North Carolina
• Queen Anne's Revenge · Blackbeard's flagship, 1718 · Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina
• Whydah Gally · Pirate ship, 1717 · Off Cape Cod, Massachusetts
• Captain Kidd's end · Privateer turned pirate, 1701 · Execution Dock, London
• Black Bart · Pirate captain, 1722 · Cape Lopez, Gabon
• Anne Bonny and Mary Read · Pirates, 1720 · Negril, Jamaica
• Morgan's march on Panama · Privateer, 1671 · Panamá Viejo, Panama
• Zheng Yi Sao · Pirate commander, c. 1807 · Pearl River delta, China
• Jean Lafitte · Privateer, 1810s · Barataria Bay, Louisiana
• Algiers · Barbary corsair port, 1500s to 1800s · Algiers, Algeria
• Île Sainte-Marie · Pirate haven, 1690s · Madagascar
• Caesar and the pirates · Roman history, 75 BCE · Off Farmakonisi, Aegean
• Lindisfarne raid · Viking raid, 793 · Holy Island, England
• Saint-Malo · Privateer port, 1600s · Brittany, France
• Drake's Spanish Main raids · Elizabethan privateer, 1572 · Nombre de Dios, Panama
• Drake at Cartagena · Naval raid, 1586 · Cartagena, Colombia
• Gulf of Aden piracy · Modern piracy, 2008 to 2012 · Gulf of Aden
• Oak Island Money Pit · Treasure legend · Nova Scotia, Canada
• Cocos Island · Treasure legend · Costa Rica, Pacific
• Gardiners Island · Kidd's buried loot, 1699 · Long Island, New York
• The Flying Dutchman · Ghost ship legend · Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
• Bermuda Triangle · Maritime legend · Western Atlantic
• Mahdia shipwreck · Roman-era cargo ship, c. 80 BCE · Off Mahdia, Tunisia (pin at the town; wreck lies offshore)
• San Diego galleon · Spanish galleon, 1600 · Near Fortune Island, Batangas, Philippines (pin at the island)
• Mars (Makalös) · Swedish warship, 1564 · Baltic Sea, about 22 km northeast of Öland, Sweden (approximate)
• SS Yongala · Passenger steamship, 1911 · Off Cape Bowling Green, near Townsville, Queensland, Australia
• Nanhai One · Song dynasty merchant ship, 1127 to 1279 CE · Hailing Island, Yangjiang, Guangdong, China (pin at the museum where the ship is displayed)
• Murakami sea lords · Sea lords of Japan, 1300s to 1588 · Noshima, Geiyo Islands, Seto Inland Sea, Japan
• Henry Every and the Ganj-i-Sawai · Pirate capture of a Mughal ship, 1695 · Arabian Sea, about eight days from Surat, India (approximate; pin at Surat)
• Sea Venture wreck · English ship, 1609 · Reefs off St. George's, Bermuda (pin at the town; wreck lies nearby)
• Kyrenia ship · Greek trading ship, c. 294 BCE · Off Kyrenia, Cyprus (pin at Kyrenia Castle, where the ship is displayed)
• Klaus Störtebeker · Pirate leader and legend, 1401 · Heligoland, North Sea, Germany (according to tradition)
• HMS Pandora · Royal Navy ship, 1791 · Outer Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
• Belitung shipwreck · Arab dhow, c. 830 CE · Off Belitung Island, Indonesia
• Grace O'Malley · Irish sea chieftain, c. 1530 to 1603 · Rockfleet Castle, Clew Bay, County Mayo, Ireland
• Mongol fleet at Takashima · Mongol invasion fleet, 1281 · Off Takashima island, Imari Bay, Nagasaki, Japan
• Skuldelev Viking ships · Viking ships, 11th century CE · Roskilde, Denmark (pin at the Viking Ship Museum; the ships were found about 20 km north)
• SS Waratah · Passenger steamship, 1909 · Off the Eastern Cape coast, South Africa (where it was last seen; approximate)
• Bell Rock Lighthouse · Lighthouse, built 1807 to 1810 · Bell Rock (Inchcape), North Sea, off Arbroath, Scotland
• Kilwa Kisiwani · Swahili trading city, 9th to 16th century CE · Kilwa Kisiwani island, Lindi Region, Tanzania
• Tower of Hercules · Roman lighthouse, late 1st century CE · A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
• Mary Celeste · Merchant ship found drifting, 1872 · Atlantic Ocean, between the Azores and Portugal (where it was found)
• Lighthouse of Alexandria · Ancient lighthouse, c. 280 BCE · Pharos island, Alexandria, Egypt (the lighthouse is gone; the fort on its site is shown)
• Hội An trading port · Trading port, 15th to 19th century · Hội An Old Town, central Vietnam
• The Lost Colony of Roanoke · Lost colony, 1587 to 1590 · Roanoke Island, North Carolina, USA
• Lamu Old Town · Swahili trading town, founded c. 1370 · Lamu Island, Lamu Archipelago, Kenya
• Fort Jesus · Portuguese fort, 1593 to 1596 · Old Port of Mombasa, Kenya