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Theo Farrant

Marine archaeologists discover Danish warship destroyed by Nelson’s fleet 225 years ago

More than two centuries after it was blasted apart by Admiral Horatio Nelson’s fleet, a Danish warship lost in one of Europe’s most brutal naval battles has resurfaced - not in legend, but beneath the murky waters of Copenhagen Harbour.

Working in thick sediment and almost zero visibility 15 metres (49 feet) beneath the waves, divers are in a race against time to unearth the 19th-century wreck of the Dannebroge before it becomes a construction site in a new housing district being built off the Danish coast.

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