Lost Rhode Island whaler the Dolphin found as shipwreck off Argentina
A whaling ship that left Warren more than 150 years ago likely sailed 10,000 miles from home before wrecking off southern Argentina, scientists say.
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A whaling ship that left Warren more than 150 years ago likely sailed 10,000 miles from home before wrecking off southern Argentina, scientists say.
The wood revealed the wreckage off the coast of Argentina is the remains of the Dolphin, an American whaling ship lost in 1859 some 10,000 miles from home.
Researchers confirmed that remains of an old wooden ship was indeed the lost Dolphin whaling ship that sank in 1859.
Scientists investigating the remains of an old wooden ship off the cold, windy coast of far southern Argentina say it almost certainly is the Dolphin, a