Image: Examples of the gold coins recovered from the wreck. Credit: British Museum
by Bournemouth University
Edited by Gaby Clark, Reviewed by Andrew Zinin
The identity of a centuries-old shipwreck discovered off the south coast of England, holding 400 gold coins, has finally been identified as the Dutch trading ship “Dom van Keulen,” which left Morocco for the Netherlands in the autumn of 1633.
A new publication identifies the mysterious wreck that, for almost 30 years, a team of divers and researchers from the British Museum, Bournemouth University (BU) and the South West Maritime Archaeology Group has worked to identify. The book, called “From Morocco to the Coast of England: The Story of the Dom van Keulen and its Remarkable Cargo,” reveals that the Dutch ship encountered adverse weather.
Read the full article on Phys:
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-mystery-17th-century-shipwreck-gold.html
