Efforts are under way to retrieve the crew's personal effects from a Turkish warship that sank off Japan's Kii Peninsula more than 100 years ago.
A Turkish archaeological research institute is in charge of recovering the effects of the crew of the Ottoman Empire's Ertugrul Firkateyni, which sank off the coast of Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, on Sept. 16, 1890, after being caught in a typhoon and running aground on a reef.
Divers started salvaging the items in January, and the institute announced Feb. 19 that about 1,170 items of the crew's personal effects had been recovered, including buttons from a uniform, lenses from either a pair of binoculars or a telescope and a sole from a leather shoe.