The specialists from the Underwater Research Center of the RGS have begun to study a mysterious early 18th century ship, discovered at the bottom of the Gulf of Finland. It is assumed that this is a Dutch ship that was sailing to the newly founded St. Petersburg. Hundreds of glass bottles were found on board the ship, which is why it received the code name "Butilochnik".
In 2018, the sailors of the Baltic Fleet accidentally discovered an unknown wooden object at the bottom of the Gulf of Finland near Moshchny Island . It immediately drew the attention of the RGS Underwater Research Center specialists. In 2019, the center's divers made their first dive to the object and made sure that it was an old ship. It lay at a depth of more than 50 meters, it had no masts and windlass. The specialists of the Underwater Research Center of the Russian Geographical Society suggested that this was a Dutch tjalk - a sailing cargo vessel. The ship probably sank in the middle of the 18th century.
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