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A schoolboy found the wreckage of a 275-year-old ship while running on a beach in Scotland

He discovered the ship’s hull after a storm in February 2024

Researchers were recently able to identify the whaling ship as the Earl of Chatham — formerly a naval ship — which sank in the North Sea on April 29, 1788

A schoolboy running along a beach in Scotland made an incredible discovery — a 275-year-old ship that once belonged to the British Royal Navy.

He discovered the ship’s hull in February 2024 after a storm in Sanday, one of the small Orkney Islands off the country’s northernmost tip. However, researchers were only recently able to solve the mystery of where it came from, according to the Associated Press .

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