Image: The identification of the Dom van Keulen followed decades of collaboration among divers, archaeologists and researchers from multiple institutions. (British Museum; Maritime Archaeology Sea Trust (MAST))
Researchers matched wreck to the Dom van Keulen, a Dutch ship that sank in 1633
By Andrea Margolis
The identification was announced in June by Bournemouth University and centers on a shipwreck discovered near Salcombe, Devon, in 1995.
At the time, divers recovered more than 400 Moroccan gold coins — but there was no clue as to what the ship was called and where it came from.
Now, researchers have identified it as the Dutch trading ship Dom van Keulen, a vessel that left Morocco for the Netherlands in the fall of 1633.
At the time, the ship “sprang a leak and sank,” according to the university’s news release. All crew members survived.
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