Danish slave ships wreckage discovered off coast of Costa Rica, museum confirms

Danish slave ships wreckage discovered off coast of Costa Rica, museum confirms

Two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, beforehand thought to have been pirate ships, have been confirmed to be two Danish slave ships, a museum mentioned Sunday. “Investigations of ship timbers, bricks from the cargo and clay pipes discovered throughout underwater excavations” had decided the id of two vessels shipwrecked in 1710, Denmark’s…

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