Tag: maritime history

• Shipwrecks of the world, and how many over time

  

  Wikipedia lists 243,071 shipwrecks since 1700. I counted them year by year: three of the five worst years are war years, with 1944 the worst. The huge 1800s plateau owes a lot to British newspapers.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  data visualisation, Lloyd’s List, maps, maritime history, open data, Second World War, shipwrecks, Wikipedia