An English sailing ship which sank 154 years ago as it tried to enter the Venetian lagoon was pulled out of the water on Thursday and will now be cleaned and studied by experts.
The Margareth, 30 metres long and originally weighing 150 tonnes, was carrying a cargo of coal to Venice when it ran aground on one of the sandbanks that made access to the Italian port notoriously tricky.
Half buried in sand and lying just inside a sea barrier built soon after it was wrecked, the wooden structure of the Margareth had suffered minimal damage.
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