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Museo Brozoski Provincial Museum HMS Swift 1770 Shipwreck Exhibition SLOOP SWIFT Two Centuries Beneath the Sea
Scientific Director Dr Dolores Elkin
Departing for the site
A selection of bottles recovered
A selection of porcelain recovered
In March 1770, the British warship, His Majesty's Sloop Swift, became stranded, and then sank, in the harbour of Puerto Desire, now known as Puerto Deseado, in Patagonia, Argentina. Few of the contents of the ship could be rescued, and 88 men were stranded on the desolate coast with little food or shelter.
The wreck of the Swift with its fourteen cannons soon became covered with mud and silt and lay largely undisturbed in a few fathoms of water for some 200 years.
In 1982 some young local divers discovered the wreck and the Brozoski Museum was established in their honour, to house all the artefacts recovered.
In this exhibition historical records telling the story of the sinking of the Swift and of the fate of the survivors are presented. |
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