CNN travel | Unopened wine bottles still on board a royal ship 340 years after it sank

Brothers Lincoln Barnwell (left) and Julian Barnwell measure a cannon on the HMS Gloucester shipwreck.

(CNN) – A warship carrying about 330 people — including James Stuart, future King of England — ran aground and sank on May 6, 1682. Now the shipwreck’s location has finally been revealed off the coast of England 340 years later.

When the HMS Gloucester sank, it became half buried in the seabed. There was no formal passenger manifest, but it’s estimated that 130 to 250 crew and passengers drowned. – read more–