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Kublai Khan's Lost Fleet

1281 · the first kamikaze, Imari Bay, off Takashima, Nagasaki, Japan
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Evidence status: Historical tradition. no documented source (historical tradition); legal status unknown (manual verification recommended). This account is presented as historical tradition, not verified fact. Manual verification recommended. Repository evidence: 0 sources · 0 timeline events · 0 media items · legal unknown · view on the Map Evidence on file: historical tradition

Kublai Khan's Lost Fleet: still unexplained.

The drowned Mongol armada that a 'divine wind' destroyed

The subject
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The manifest
The drowned Mongol armada that a 'divine wind' destroyed
Last known, where the trail went cold
Wrecks lie under ~25 m of water and a metre of sand off Takashima Island; much of the fleet is still unmapped.
The account

Twice Kublai Khan launched the largest seaborne invasion the world had known at Japan, and twice a typhoon, the kamikaze, the divine wind, tore his fleet apart. Marine archaeologists off Takashima have raised keels, anchors, cannonballs, and over four thousand artifacts from the seabed, proof of an armada that the sea, not the samurai, defeated.

Leads, where the trail points now
  • The site is documented at Imari Bay, off Takashima, Nagasaki, Japan; the open questions now are access and what remains, not where it is.
  • Confirm the permit and ownership before any dive or visit, since sites like this are usually protected.
  • What is there: The drowned Mongol armada that a 'divine wind' destroyed.
What the record holds

What remains open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
What we know, and what we don't
Established

No documentary claim is yet established. The account rests on tradition.

Still open
  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
The evidence room

No documentary or visual exhibits have been located yet. The trail below and the open leads are where this dossier grows next — every exhibit that enters here carries a source.

Where the trail points now
  • The site is documented at Imari Bay, off Takashima, Nagasaki, Japan; the open questions now are access and what remains, not where it is.
  • Confirm the permit and ownership before any dive or visit, since sites like this are usually protected.
  • What is there: The drowned Mongol armada that a 'divine wind' destroyed.
  • Search Library of Congress + DPLA (IIIF) for period cartography of the site.
  • Run Chronicling America for dated newspaper mentions.
  • Query NARA for archival records tied to the site.

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Chart position 33.280°, 129.770° (approx.) View on the Map