Resolving the British shipwreck puzzle 200 years later

The wreckage of a 12-meter-long ship, buried beneath the sands of a beach in Latvia, dating back nearly 200 years, has been found.

The wreckage is most likely to be from a missing British warship.

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Latvian residents discovered part of the wreckage on a beach just a few kilometers from the capital, Riga.

However, the true size of the debris remained hidden, until experts and diggers came in, where the bulk of the debris was detected.

The ship has not yet been identified, but evidence shows that its structure was riddled with copper, a technique used by the British navy two centuries ago and used by commercial vessels traveling long distances.

The British began painting submerged parts of ships in the late eighteenth century with such paint, so the wreckage is likely to return to the nineteenth century.

The ship’s age is unknown, but it is made of acorn, a common shipyard until the mid-nineteenth century.

This has led Latvian heritage officials to assume that it is between 150 and 200 years old.