The list of shipwrecks in the 1st millennium includes some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost between 1 January AD 1 and 31 December AD 1000, of the
Julian calendar.
The
Madrague de Giens is a 40 m
Roman cargo ship, lying in 18 to 20 metres of water off the coast of the small fishing port of La Madrague de Giens, on the
Giens Peninsula, east of
Toulon.[3]
c. 280
A Gallo-Roman ship caught fire and sank in the harbour at
Saint Peter Port,
Guernsey. Discovered in 1982 by Richard Keen, a local diver, the ship was raised between 1984 and 1987 by the Guernsey Maritime Trust. Some of the ship is on show in a store with a viewing window, opposite
Fort Grey.[4] The remnants consist mainly of the forward parts of the hull, built of
oak.[5]
c. 570
A
Byzantine ship carrying marble columns and anchors sank off the island of Ekinlik, in the
Sea of Marmara, Turkey. The wreck was found by sonar in 1997.[6][7]
A ship sinks in the
North Channel with the loss of Faílbe son of Guaire,
coarb of the church at Apor Crosán (
Applecross, Scotland), and 22 sailors.[15][16]
(First report) — Danish fleet: Loss of 120 galleys at
Swanage, following an agreement with
King Alfred to leave
Wessex. Reports differ as to whether loss was due to a storm or fog.[22]
886
A number of Danish war
galleys were sunk at the mouth of the
River Orwell during clashes between King Alfred and the Danish Vikings.[23]
924
A
Viking fleet is reported to have been wrecked in
Dundrum with the loss of around nine hundred lives.[24]
References
^Scully, Ruby Prosser (7 December 2019). "Roman shipwreck full of 2000-year-old jugs discovered". New Scientist. No. 3259. p. 9.