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Famous findSank about AD 280 · found 1982
The Asterix ship: a diver's Christmas Day find in St Peter Port harbour was a Roman merchant ship sunk by its own burning cargo
On Christmas Day 1982 local diver Richard Keen found old timbers on the seabed between the pierheads of St Peter Port, Guernsey. They were the hull of a Gallo-Roman merchant ship that caught fire and sank around AD 280, the most complete Roman sea-going wreck found outside the Mediterranean.