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New Investigations into the Radford Wreck: Interpreting a Candidate for Cape Lookout’s Lost Whaler (2023)
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This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Radford Wreck, CLS0006, is a 3.6 x 1.5 meter portion of ships’ stern located at the mouth of a shallow creek in North Carolina’s Cape Lookout National Seashore. Efforts to determine the vessel’s identity suggest the Provincetown, Massachusetts fishing schooner Seychelle a potential candidate. Wrecked on Cape Lookout during its maiden voyage to the Hatteras whaling grounds in 1879,...