Shipwreck of historic 18th-century warship uncovered on remote Scottish island

Excerpt from euronews.com

When a storm in February 2024 ripped away the sands on a remote beach in Sanday — one of Scotland's far-flung, sea-beaten islands — it revealed something astonishing: the ribs of an old wooden ship, long buried beneath the dunes.

The ghostly remains quickly stirred excitement among the 500-strong island community, for whom the ocean is both a livelihood and a lurking danger.

“I would regard it as a lucky ship, which is a strange thing to say about a ship that’s wrecked,” says Ben Saunders, senior marine archaeologist at Wessex Archaeology, which helped locals lead the investigation.

“I think if it had been found in many other places it wouldn’t necessarily have had that community drive, that desire to recover and study that material, and also the community spirit to do it.”