53. Saint Clair Wines

Est. Value Today: $2-$5 million*
Year Disappeared: 2013
Year Discovered: N/A
Gold, silver, and precious jewels aren’t the only things that go down with a ship when it sinks. In 2013, thousands of cases of wine from the St. Clair Family Estate were lost off the coast of Mumbai after the 1,000-foot cargo ship they were on sank. The Marlborough Sauvignon Balance and Pinot Noir brands from the winery were the heaviest losses.

Saint Clair Wines  @wineanorak.com/Pinterest
The winery requires buyers to buy the wines before they are shipped, but that was still a huge loss for the company. One case of St. Clair’s famous Pinot Noir sells for $516, so there is likely between $2 and $5 million worth of wine swimming with the fishes right now.

54. Heidsieck Champagne

Est. Value Today: $55 million*
Year Disappeared: 1916
Year Discovered: 1977
Charles Heidsieck is a champagne house that is part of the Grandes Marques Houses of Champagne. It is based in Reims, France, where it was founded in 1851. The brand has become well-known for its Cuvee.

Heidsieck Champagne @thehuffpost/Pinterest
In 1916 off the coast of Finland, a ship containing this extremely expensive wine sank. At the time, the 200 bottles were being sent to the Russian Imperial Family. They were uncovered in 1977 and immediately became the most valuable wines in the world. You can buy a formerly-undersea bottle at Moscow’s Ritz Carlton Hotel, but it’ll cost you $275,000 because it is so rare.

55. Crusader’s Sword

Est. Value Today: $300,000-$800,000*
Year Disappeared: 1095-1291
Year Discovered: 2021
For this one, you might want to know a bit of history. The Crusader Knights were religious warriors. The Crusades took place under the instructions of the Pope, who put together these skilled fighting units. The Crusaders were known for their distinctive white mantles embroidered with a red cross.

Crusader’s Sword  @aljazeera.net /Pinterest
These religious wars between the Roman Catholic Church and Islamic rulers were intended to recover Jerusalem. Off Israel’s Carmel Coast in 2021, a scuba diver recovered a 3.28-foot-long sword with an 11.8-inch hilt. The sword was covered in barnacles, but experts were able to confirm that it was an ancient, centuries-old weapon that once belonged to a Crusader Knight.

56. Britain’s Oldest Shipwreck

Est. Value Today: Unknown
Year Disappeared: 900 B.C.
Year Discovered: 2010
Throughout the years, Devon, England’s Salcombe Coast has been the site of quite a few shipwrecks. In 2010, explorers unearthed the oldest shipwreck in Britain. It was dated at 3,000 years old. The vessel, when it sank, had been carrying precious cargo like 27 tin ingots and 259 copper ingots.

Britain’s oldest shipwreck @Cnn/Pinterest
More than likely, this ship was headed towards a Bronze Age settlement before being overcome by the dangerous, turbulent waters. The British Museum purchased many of the 295 artifacts from the wreck for an undisclosed fee. A bronze sword, several stone tools, and gold jewelry from the shipwreck are now on display there.

57. Hoi An Ceramics

Est. Value Today: $14 million*
Year Disappeared: 1400s/1500s
Year Discovered: 1996
Local Vietnamese fishermen in the 1990s were surprised when, one day, they began pulling ceramics from their fishing nets instead of fish. They alerted the government, and work began in 1996 to excavate the Hoi An shipwreck. Divers discovered that the wreck was carrying a huge cargo of ceramics.

These blue and white porcelain dishes dated back to the 1400s and 1500s. In total, excavators discovered 250,000 pieces, which had likely been dislodged from the seafloor after a nasty storm. Three dragon ewers were among the most valuable artifacts discovered, and they sold for $79,500, $63,000, and $57,500.

58. Gold Chalice

Est. Value Today: $413,000*
Year Disappeared: 1622
Year Discovered: 2010s
Blue Water Ventures International, an exploration and excavation team, unearthed a valuable, ancient golden chalice in the 2010s. The chalice belonged to the shipwreck of the Santa Margarita, a Spanish galleon, which sank off the coast of the Florida Keys in the 1620s.

Gold chalice @judah55/Pinterest
The two-handled, solid-gold chalice was valued at $413,000. It belonged to a wealthy passenger traveling on the ship when it met its demise. The chalice was located under an eighteen-foot-deep mound of sand. After being unearthed and thoroughly cleaned, this valuable piece of history was put up for auction in New York in 2015, where it sold quickly.

59. H.L. Hunley Submarine

Est. Value Today: $97 million* (Cost of Salvage Operation)
Year Disappeared: 1860s
Year Discovered: 2000
The H.L. Hunley was a submarine that had a small part in the American Civil War. It belonged to the Confederate Army, and it was a prime example of the advantages and disadvantages of undersea warfare. The Hunley was the first combat sub to successfully sink a warship.

H.L. Hunley submarine @American Civil War Museum/Wikimedia Commons
However, in that attack, the Hunley was also lost, taking her crew down with her. The Hunley sank three times throughout her career, taking twenty-one total crewmen with her. After the third sinking, the Confederates let her rest at the bottom of the ocean. She was raised in 2000 and is now on display at a museum in North Charleston, South Carolina.

60. Jesus “Good Shepherd” Ring

Est. Value Today: Unknown
Year Disappeared: 200s
Year Discovered: 2021
During ancient times, Caesarea was a major port. As a result, shipwrecks off the coast of this Israeli region tend to yield quite a few buried treasures. One such treasure is this ring, which bore an early Christian icon of Jesus as a shepherd. It was founded among other valuables in a centuries-old shipwreck.

Jesus “Good Shepherd” Ring @Paris Match /Yahoo.com
The gold ring has a green gemstone that is engraved with Jesus as a young boy with a sheep on his shoulders. The wreck also yielded hundreds of bronze and silver coins, too. According to experts, this third-century ring is a piece of “great archaeological value.”

61. Lost Kingdom of Cleopatra

Est. Value Today: $90.56 million*
Year Disappeared: 1600
Year Discovered: 1998
If you know anything about history, you have probably heard of Queen Cleopatra of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. One of history’s greatest rulers, she led the kingdom from 51 to 30 B.C. She led her people from the city of Alexandria on the coast of Egypt. 1,600 years ago, Alexandria mysteriously disappeared.

Lost Kingdom of Cleopatra @legendboats/Pinterest
It was unearthed in the late 1990s. The lost city yielded over twenty-thousand sunken treasures, including sphinxes, statues, columns, and the Pharos, a 440-foot-tall lighthouse that guided ships for more than 2,000 years. Though no jewels or gold were found, some estimates place treasures from Cleopatra’s lost city at around $50 million.

62. The Gates of Hell

Est. Value Today: $13 million*
Year Disappeared: 1533
Year Discovered: 2008
The last place you’d expect to find a shipwreck would be next to a massive desert, but with this wreck, that’s exactly what happened. 500 years ago, a Portuguese ship called the Bom Jesus was en route from Lisbon, Portugal to India. It wasn’t able to navigate the rough waters and thick fog off the Skeleton Coast, and it sank.

The Gates of Hell ©Jahuey/Wikimedia Commons
After the sinking, it took hundreds of years until a diamond mining operation discovered it off the coast of Namibia’s desert, once referred to by Portuguese sailors as the “Gates of Hell” because of its heat and inhospitableness. In its wake, the wreck left 44,000 pounds of copper, ivory tusks, gold, and tin, all estimated at $13 million in value.

63. S.S. Republic

Est. Value Today: $120-$180 million*
Year Disappeared: 1865
Year Discovered: 2003
One of the most valuable shipwrecks on this list is that of the S.S. Republic. Odyssey came across this wreck in the early 2000s, finding this sidewheel steamer loaded with over 14,000 artifacts and 51,000 coins. The Republic was en route from Georgia to New Orleans when it sank in a hurricane.

S.S. Republic @lets-travel/Pinterest
The discovery yielded silver, gold, and thousands of stoneware, glasses, and bottles, all for a grand total of well over $100 million. Though this shipwreck is not as ancient as the others on this list, it still was the site of a lot of value and historical importance when it was found.

64. The Coral Reef Tomb

Est. Value Today: Unknown 
Year Disappeared: 985 B.C.
Year Discovered: 2008
This is one of the most fascinating finds on this list. Discovered in the late 2000s by a group of archaeologists, this treasure isn’t gold, silver, or precious jewels. It’s bones. In the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Australia, archaeologists began excavating an old coral reef, when they found a 3,000-year-old cemetery.

The Coral Reef Tomb @sandrajmom/Pinterest
The skeletons belonged to natives of Vanuatu, a country consisting of eighty-three islands. The skeletons’ legs and arms were broken so that they could fit into the cavities of the reef. Additionally, none of them had heads—their skulls were not buried; they were displayed in their relatives’ homes.

65. WW2 Lost Silver

Est. Value Today: $71.73 million*
Year Disappeared: 1941
Year Discovered: 2010
This shipwreck discovery is another one from Odyssey. In 1941, a British merchant ship called the S.S. Gairsoppa began sailing from Calcutta. It carried cargo of 2,800 silver bars that were meant to boost England’s war chest. After fighting through a massive storm, the Gairsoppa had to head to Galway Harbor for refuge.

WW2 Lost Silver @sophia971922/Pinterest
It never made it, as a German U-boat sank it 300 miles off the Irish coast. Seventy years later, the sunken ship was discovered via a remotely-operated submarine. The WW2 precious metal weighed 48 tons and was valued at over $70 million, making it one of the largest hauls of its kind in maritime history.

66. Panagyurishte Treasure

Est. Value Today: $304,285*
Year Disappeared: 10th Century B.C.-100 A.D.
Year Discovered: 1949
This Thracian treasure was discovered by mistake by three brothers in Panagyurishte, Bulgaria. They were digging for clay when they discovered this hoard in a river, and, when it was discovered, it was the richest treasure ever found in Europe after World War II. It is now one of the most famous surviving artifacts from ancient Thracian culture.

Panagyurishte treasure @TheSunOnline/Pinterest
The treasure is the centerpiece of Plovdiv’s Regional Historical Museum, and it has also been lent to the National Museum of History, located in Sofia, Bulgaria. There are also a trio of replicas of this treasure, which are displayed in the authentic treasure’s place when it is sent abroad for exhibitions.