The largest-ever post-war salvage operation on the Thames has discovered seven shipwrecks up to 350 years old.
They include a warship that was blown up in 1665, a yacht converted to a Second World War gunboat, and a mystery wreck in which divers found a personalised gin bottle.
The vessels, in the Thames Estuary, are just some of about 1,100 ships which went down in the whole of the river.
Oldest find: HMS London, which sank in 1665, at the bottom of the Thames Estuary The salvage by Wessex Archaeology and the Port of London Authority, which regulates the river, was both historical and practical.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008