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Shipwrecks
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This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The story has been passed through generations. it was the wreck of ten vessels at once, comprising one of the most dramatic maritime disasters in Caribbean naval history. Historical documents and remains of the ships confirm that the narrative is more than folklore. It is based on the loss of HMS Convert, formerly L’Inconstante, a recent prize from the French, and nine of her...
Changing Attitudes and Approaches to Shipwreck Archaeology in the Caribbean (2018)
Since its discovery more than 50 years ago the HIghborne Cay Wreck has been salvaged by antiquarians in 1966-67, partially excavated by archaeologists in 1986, and re-examined in 2017. The motivations, focus, techniques, and findings of each of these activities were very different and serve as examples of the evolution of attitudes and approaches to shipwreck archaeology in the Caribbean.
Commodore Barney and the Flying Magnetometers (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Needle, Meet Haystack: The Role of Magnetometers in Underwater Archaeological Research and the Evolution of Interpreting Magnetic Data for Cultural Resource Investigations", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Commodore Joshua Barney’s Chesapeake Flotilla was composed of a collection of shallow drafted gunboats and barges designed to stave off British invasions into the Chesapeake during the American-British War...
Comparative Analysis of the Ceramic Assemblage from the Anniversary Wreck, St. Augustine, Florida (2018)
The Anniversary Wreck was discovered in 2015, the 450th anniversary of the founding of St. Augustine, Florida. Preliminary analysis of the material recovered dates the site between 1750 and 1800. A closer examination of the ceramic assemblage and a comparison to terrestrial ceramic assemblages from St. Augustine are used to attempt to accurately place the shipwreck within the prevailing historical divisions of Florida’s History that span the years 1750 to 1800, that is, the late First Spanish...
Connecting Sunken Actors: Social Network Analysis in Maritime Archaeology (2021)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Contextualizing Maritime Archaeology in Australasia" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. ‘Social Network’ has become a popular term thanks to online tools as Facebook or Twitter, allowing us to connect with everyone. Specific to archaeology, Social Network Analysis (SNA) is well established as a method, but its theoretical application in Maritime Archaeology is an incipient initiative. This paper presents the...
Conservation of artifacts from a Portuguese wreck: An opportunity for learning (2018)
The wreck of the Esmerelda, a Nau from Vasco da Gama's second voyage to India was discovered during survey in 1998 and excavated over two seasons. The Omani Ministry of Heritage and Culture (MHC) worked with Bournemouth University and Blue water recoveries to create the project, the first of it's kind in Oman. The project is now part of the development of a marine archaeological department within Oman training archaeologists within the MHC in the survey, excavation and protection of marine...
Construction and Assembly of the Highbourne Cay Shipwreck (2018)
Archaeologists rarely excavate complete sites, due to a mutual understanding that sections should be left for future generations and the advancement of archaeological techniques. The dynamic and high current environment surrounding the Highbourne Cay shipwreck threatened to undermine the formerly protective ballast mound. Over the course of the previous summer, an international team of nautical archaeologists proceeded to remove ballast, coral, and sand to record surviving hull remains. This...
Convicts, Cargo, and Calamity: The Wreck of the Enchantress (2016)
From 2010-2015, the University of Rhode Island and St. Mary’s College of California conducted an underwater archaeology field school in the waters of Bermuda on a site called the "Iron Plate Wreck." Aptly named for a large block of sheet iron located at the stern, the wreck’s identity remained a mystery for over 50 years. In 2013, however, historical research provided clues to the identity of the wreck, revealing it is the Enchantress, an early 19th century British merchant vessel with a unique...
The "Correio d’ Ázia" – an early 19th century Portuguese "galera" wrecked in Australia. Preliminary findings. (2013)
In 1816 the Portuguese "galera" ´Correio da Azia´ was sailing from Lisbon to China "against weather, seas and wind, fire, shallows and coastal dangers and errors of maps". Carrying general cargo and more than 107.000 silver coins, the ship was never to reach its destination: on November, the 26th, she struck an uncharted reef off what was then New Holland and was hopelessly lost. After a failed salvaged attempt in 1817, the loss of the ship quietly slipped into the History until its story was...
CSS Georgia And Research That Preceded Mitigation (2016)
The Savannah District USACE and the Georgia Ports Authority are partnering to deepen and widen various portions of the Savannah River. As part of the associated permitting process, numerous archaeological investigations have been carried out by the District. A series of investigations of the remains of the ironclad CSS Georgia began following dredge impacts to the wreck in 1968. The following year Navy divers carried out an initial assessment of the wreck and in 1979 archaeologists from Texas...
A Cultural Resources Marine Remote Sensing Survey of the Offshore Borrow and Re-handling Areas South Reach Brevard County Shore Protection Project, Brevard County, Florida (2001)
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, is proposing to construct additional shore protection in southern Brevard County, Florida. A single borrow area (Space Coast Shoals II) and a sand re-handling area (South Reach Sand Rehandling Area) will be utilized during the proposed project. To insure that no significant shipwrecks or other archaeological resources are adversely effected by the planned offshore shore protection project, the Jacksonville District contracted Mid-Atlantic...
Culture, Ship Construction, and Ecological Change: The Sailing Vessels of Pensacola’s Fishing Industry (2013)
Dubbed the "Gloucester of the Gulf," Pensacola and Northwest Florida experienced a tremendous growth in the popularity and success of local commercial fishing in the years following the Civil War. Entrepreneurial fishermen arriving in Pensacola from New England fueled a massive market for Gulf of Mexico fish, constructing what would become the last all sail-powered commercial fleet in the country. The connection between the region’s Reconstruction-era industry and the natural environment in...
A Deadly Device: New Insights into the Weapon System of the Submarine H.L. Hunley (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The submarine H.L. Hunley attacked and sank the blockading ship USS Housatonic on the night of February 17, 1864, off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina, becoming the first submarine to sink an enemy ship in war. Although successful in its mission, the submarine was itself lost that same night. Since its recovery in 2000, the...
Death by a Thousand Cuts: Souveniring, Salvage and the Long, Sad Demise of HMAS Perth (I) (2018)
In May 2017, maritime archaeologists affiliated with the Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) and Indonesia’s Pusat Arkeologi Nasional (ARKENAS) conducted a survey and site assessment of HMAS Perth (I), a modified Leander class light cruiser sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Battle of Sunda Strait in March 1942. When discovered in 1967, Perth’s wreck site was almost completely intact, save for battle damage and subsequent deterioration caused by natural transformative...
Discovery and future of the lost fleet of the Mongol Empire (2016)
The story of Kamikaze, or the legendary storm that destroyed the ill-fated fleet of Khublai Khan off Japan, is a well known story in history. It is recorded that more than three thousands vessels were lost. The search for the lost fleet took decades while only small hull fragments and scatters of artifacts were found. In 2015, finally a well-preservd vessel was discovered at Takashim Island in Nagasaki Prefecture. Unfortunately, the large majority of Japanese archaeologists had not realize the...
Diverse Threats to MAST and its Heritage in Africa : Confronting Historical Amnesia and Salvors; Securing Slim Resources and Social Relevance (2016)
In much of the developing world a triumvirate of treasure hunting, politics, and a lack of technical capacity/resources have skewed portrayals of what maritime history is and why it is meaningful. Shipwreck sites in particular have been promoted as the embodiment of the heritage of "the other" with little local relevance. Treasure hunters accordingly go unchecked in their efforts to recover valuable historical cargos—with detrimental effects for the archaeological inventory. This paper will...
Documenting Historic Shipwrecks in the 21st Century: Using New and Old Data to Support Monitoring of the 1733 San Pedro and San Felipe (2019)
This is an abstract from the "POSTER Session 2: Linking Historic Documents and Background Research in Archaeology" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In June of 2018, Indiana University’s Center for Underwater Science and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) documented the 1733 San Pedro Underwater Archaeological Preserve and San Felipe shipwreck by using photogrammetry, in conjunction with archival data ranging from 1988 to...
Early Encounters on a Western Frontier: The Search for Sv. Nikolai (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary protects the prolific marine resources of Washington State. While shipwrecks are only a small portion of the sanctuary’s cultural heritage, their evaluation nevertheless presents opportunities to better understand the colonization of the Pacific Northwest. Of the dozens of shipwrecks lost...
Elbow Reef’s Landscape of Salvage (2016)
Jutting into the Gulf Stream, Elbow Reef has claimed numerous vessels, particularly steamships, over the last 150 years. Today, these shipwrecks attract hundreds of divers and snorkelers visiting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Archaeological research has revealed the histories of several Elbow Reef shipwrecks, but time has shrouded the identities of others until recently. The Office of National Marine Sanctuaries (ONMS) is partnering...
Essential Hardware: An Analysis of Vasa’s Rigging and Gun Tackle Blocks (2018)
Rigging blocks are essential to the operation of a large sailing vessel, yet little has been published on these vital pieces of hardware. Recent research and analysis of the rigging and gun tackle blocks found in association with the Swedish royal warship, Vasa, lost in Stockholm Harbor in 1628,has made possible a detailed study of this specialized equipment, its typology, nomenclature, historical development, physical mechanics, and its application aboard 17th century square-rigged ships....
Evolution of the North-Alignment Model for Archaeological Interpretation of Marine Magnetic Data (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Needle, Meet Haystack: The Role of Magnetometers in Underwater Archaeological Research and the Evolution of Interpreting Magnetic Data for Cultural Resource Investigations", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper traces the arc of the author’s experience from 1985 to the present, interpreting marine magnetometer surveys in search of shipwrecks. During that period, technological advancements in positioning...
Expedition Asia: Investigations of a 19th Century Wooden Shipwreck in Apra Harbor, Guam (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "From Whalers to World War II: Guam Underwater Archaeology", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2019, divers performed an initial assessment of a wooden-hulled shipwreck located during remote sensing operations in Apra Harbor, Guam. Historical research into the area suggested the site might represent the remains of the whaleship Asia, lost at Guam in 1856. Identified as a potentially significant historic site,...
Extracting Diagnostic Information from Historic Ship Timber Surface Marks: The Case of La Concorde/Queen Anne’s Revenge (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This study seeks to expand the potential of information gleaned from tool marks on shipwreck timbers using the excavated remains of Blackbeard’s ship, Queen Anne’s Revenge (ex La Concorde, c.1710-1718), as a case study. The approach attempts to utilize the complementary strengths of three different techniques: Reflectance...
Finding a Needle in a Stack of Needles: Using Experimental Archaeology to Find Shipwrecks of Hernan Cortés (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Plus Ultra: An examination of current research in Spanish Colonial/Iberian Underwater and Terrestrial Archaeology in the Western Hemisphere." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1519, Hernán Cortés ordered ten of his eleven ships scuttled in response to two mutinies. Prior to the scuttling event, contemporary chroniclers, including Cortés, described stripping the vessels of all usable items such as ground...
Finding The 1526 Flagship Of Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Plus Ultra: An examination of current research in Spanish Colonial/Iberian Underwater and Terrestrial Archaeology in the Western Hemisphere." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. On a stormy night in 1526, the flagship from the Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón expedition hit a sandbar and sank at the entrance to the Jordan river. Slavers from Hispaniola had visited this new landmass five years earlier and reported on a...