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Wanjiao No.1 Shipwreck

Wanjiao One is an ancient Chinese merchant ship that sank off the coast of Fujian Province's Pingtan County, China. The shipwreck is 13.8m long, 3m wide and 1m deep. Loaded with more than 17,000 pieces of porcelain, amongst which 10,000 pieces of blue-and-white porcelain date back to the reign of the Kangxi Emperor (1654-1722) in the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). It was discovered in 2005 and the shipwreck was fully excavated in 2008.

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