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Is it Guerrero? Investigations of an Early Nineteenth Century Shipwreck Near Key Largo, Florida (2021)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Ship Construction and Shipwrecks: A Journey into Engineering Successes and Failures (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. On December 19, 1827, the Havana-based pirate slave ship Guerrero wrecked on a reef off Key Largo, Florida, while being chased by the British Royal Navy schooner HMS Nimble. Forty-one captive Africans drowned when Guerrero sank; the survivors were rescued. Items were...