Centuries-old ‘pirate’ shipwrecks in Costa Rica confirmed as 1710 Danish slave ships

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NPR interview with Andreas Bloch, a marine archaeologist at the National Museum of Denmark


05/17/25

The National Museum confirms: Shipwrecks in Costa Rica are Danish slave ships | Nationalmuseet – Forskning og Kulturarv

Investigations of ship timbers, bricks from the cargo and clay pipes found during underwater excavations in Costa Rica confirm that the site holds two Danish slave ships that, according to historical sources, were shipwrecked off the coast of Central America in 1710.

via.ritzau.dk