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Kid Finds 250-Year-Old Shipwreck!

Imagine stumbling on a real-life pirate ship! A Scottish schoolboy spotted “huge wood bones” on an Orkney beach, and it turned out to be a 250-year-old British warship lost in a storm. Locals jumped in to save the timbers, and experts traced it back to the HMS Hind—a Royal Navy frigate turned whaler. Every sailor survived the wreck, and now the whole island is buzzing with shipwreck fever. Who knew a beach walk could rewrite history? #History #ShipwreckDiscovery #Orkney