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The Resurgam

Off Rhyl, Denbighshire

One of the world's first steam-powered submarines.

The Resurgam was designed by a Manchester curate, the Reverend George Garrett, as a steam-powered submarine. In February 1880, while being towed in a storm off Rhyl, she flooded and sank.

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When
February 1880
Where
53.3800, -3.6000
Group
Shipwrecks

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A replica stands at Woodside Ferry Terminal, Birkenhead.

Cover of Blood and Gold by Cale Mills
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Blood and Gold

Sixteen true stories of mutiny, mercy, treasure and the gallows from the Golden Age of Piracy: Henry Every, Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts, Edward England, Howell Davis, Christopher Moody, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Charles Vane, Benjamin Hornigold, Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Israel Hands, Calico Jack, Edward Low, Captain William Kidd and Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy. Where the record is uncertain, the book says so.

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