Ship That Vanished 120 Yrs Ago Found in Australia

A ship that vanished mysteriously 120 years ago off the coast of Australia has been found.

This coal-transporting steamship SS Nemesis vanished after falling into a storm off the New South Wales coast while travelling to Melbourne in 1904. It went missing along with 32 crew members.

Some bodies of crew members and fragments of the ship’s wreckage washed ashore, but the location of the 240-foot ship remained a mystery.

Now, almost 120 years after, Subsea Professional Marine Services, a remote sensing company searching the ocean floor off the coast of Sydney for lost cargo, stumbled upon the missing shipwreck.

According to the New York Post, the wreck was found untouched, nearly 525 feet underwater.

CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, has confirmed that the wreck is that of SS Nemesis. It has been ascertained that the ship went down as its engine became overwhelmed due to the storm. It is believed that the steamship sank quickly after being hit by a large wave and the crew did not get time to escape using lifeboats.

Australia’s government officials are now looking for family members of the crewmembers who went down with the ship. The video imagery collected by CSIRO will now be “stitched together” to create a 3D model of the wreck for further investigation.