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'Race against time' to study 'exceptionally well-preserved' HMS Northumberland wreck
Experts face "a race against time" to study the wreck of a 17th century warship which is deteriorating because of the elements.
HMS Northumberland sank off the Kent coast more than 320 years ago but is said to be "exceptionally well-preserved". However, Historic England has warned it is at "high risk of deterioration" due to "shifting sands, strong currents and marine boring organisms".
According to the heritage group, divers surveying the wreck, which is twenty metres deep underwater and nine miles off the coast, have discovered that it is more complete than first thought. They have found multiple wooden decks, well-preserved wooden chests and coils of rope, preserved by being "covered by sand and seabed sediments for hundreds of years".
And experts say the Protected Wreck Site could "tell us more about shipbuilding during the Stuart period". But it also said to be "fragile" and "unstable.
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