BANGARAM ISLAND, India (12 Mar 2003) -- Indian navy divers have discovered the wreck of a late 18th-century British merchant ship on a coral reef off India's southern coast. The ship - Princes Royal - was uncovered last November at the site where it sank in the 1790s on a return journey from Southeast Asia, The Asian Age reports. Artifacts found on the ship included four cannons, an anchor, iron objects, copper rods, wooden planks, porcelain and brown-glazed pottery, glass pieces, brick and ballast stone, the newspaper says. They are all in "excellent condition," it adds. The project was carried out jointly by the Indian Navy and the Archaeological Survey of India off Bangaram Island, which is part of the Lakshadweep Islands in the Indian Ocean off the southwestern tip of India's mainland. Its findings and underwater footage will be discussed by experts from Spain, Portugal, Britain and the United States at a seminar on marine archaeology in New Delhi on March 14-15. SOURCE - Ananova | 
