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The Voyage That Kickstarted Globalisation

Dan Snow's History Hit

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The Sinking of the Elpis

A greek iron screw steamer called th elpis was discovered during this digitiation project. The wreck report for this ship essentially acts like a death certificate for a ship, these wreck reports. It shows that the elpis sprang a leak and foundered off of hyper in modern day israel, in april 19 21. But there's a follow up letter on the 20 second of june 19 22 by one of the engineers on board the Elpis which explains a more suspicious reason for the sinking. Sojust tingit it a context to it. Such remating story, particularly now because we are talking about trade with australasia. Again, fascinating stuff.

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