Image Credit: Brandon Clifford, co-founder and director of the Center for Historic Shipwreck Preservation, opens up a box with Chinese blue and white porcelain cups and fragments found at the wreckage site. Each artifact has been documented. Photo taken July 14, 2025
Merrily Cassidy/Cape Cod Times
In the silty waters off Ile Sainte-Marie, a small island near Madagascar, a centuries-old shipwreck lies buried in muck and mystery.
Thousands of miles from Cape Cod, a team of local archaeologists from the Center for Historic Shipwreck Preservation — the same organization that found the pirate ship Whydah Galley off Wellfleet in 1984 — believe they’ve found another legend from the golden age of piracy: the Nossa Senhora do Cabo.
Read the full article on Cape Cod Times:
https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/history/2025/07/31/cape-cod-madagascar-historic-shipwreck-preservation-brewster-ma-whydah-cabo/84522613007/
