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Shipwrecks
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Improvements to the Alexandria waterfront began soon after the town was established in 1749. By 1798, the tidal flats along the Potomac River had been infilled and the new shoreline was dominated by wharves and warehouses. Archeological excavations at the Hotel Indigo site along the orginal shoreline, revealed evidence of this engineered infilling: the remnants of a bulkhead wharf and a late-18th century ship that were used as a framework to create new land. The foundations of one of the...
The History and Archaeological Investigations of Nineteenth Century Gunboat USS Castine (2016)
The USS Castine was emblematic of the New Navy’s transformation from wood to steel vessels in the late nineteenth century, and of the evolving use of a vessel over time. During a 29-year service career spanning the Spanish American War and World War I, the unheralded gunboat proved to be an indispensable workhorse as a blockader, coastal combat vessel, training ship, submarine tender, U-boat chaser, and globetrotting reminder of the long reach of American naval power. Following the end of its...
The Impact of Coastal Erosion on a Maine Shipwreck: Tools for the Long-Term Study, Management, and Protection of Shipwrecks from Coastal Erosion, Storm Surge, and Sea Level Rise (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Following powerful coastal winter storms and beach erosion, the remains of a shipwreck were repeatedly exposed at Short Sands Beach in York, Maine. The shipwreck received national attention during highly visible exposures following a Nor’easter storm in February 2018. The public is concerned about vandalism and erosion of the site, which has exposed numerous times since 1958. A 2018...
In Search of a 17th-Century Iberian Work Horse (2013)
The coastal stretches along Portugal's Algarve are historically notorious for storms in which vessels were lost during return voyages from southern destinations. Archival documents have revealed that an Iberian work vessel, perhaps a little-known but ubiquitous ship type from the Age of Exploration known as the patacho, was wrecked during a storm in the Bay of Martinhal in 1608. As the construction and operation of this particular ship type is virtually unknown, a research project was designed...
In Situ Digital Documentation of the 1559 Emanuel Point Shipwrecks (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Technology in Terrestrial and Underwater Archaeology" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Since 1996, University of West Florida (UWF) archaeologists have documented the vessels associated with Tristán de Luna y Arellano’s 1559 colonization fleet through standard survey methods. In recent years, with the relative low cost of underwater digital cameras, UWF documentation methods have evolved to include photographs and...
Initial Results of Research on the Wreck of Tank Bay 1 Possible Lyon ex Beaumont (English Harbour, Antigua & Barbuda). (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The aim of this paper is to present the results of research carried out on the wreck of Tank Bay 1 located at English Harbour (Antigua & Barbuda). Initial analyses confirm the identification of the remains as those of the Lyon, ex Beaumont. This French East India Company ship was built in Lorient in...
Investigating The Ancient Port Of Sanitja, Menorca (2016)
Their strategic location in the Mediterranean caused numerous cultures, empires, and countries to fight over and conquer the Balearic Islands of modern-day Spain. In the ancient world, Menorca - the easternmost island of the Balearics - was influenced or conquered by the Minoans, Carthaginians, Romans, and Vandals, respectively. Prior to the Romans’ arrival, the native Baleares were known for their skills with the sling and were hired as mercenaries throughout the Mediterranean. The...
Investigation of Shipwrecks from the Battle of Cartagena de Indias in 1741 (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. The War of Jenkins’ Ear, or the Guerra del Asiento, took place from 1739 – 1748, with major operations ended by 1742. The largest action of the war took place at Cartagena de Indias, one of Spain’s principal ports through which all gold...
The Investigation of the Anniversary Wreck, a Colonial Merchant Ship Lost off St. Augustine, Florida: Results of the 2017 Excavation Season (2018)
In July 2015, during the city’s 450th anniversary celebration, a buried shipwreck was discovered off St. Augustine, Florida by the St. Augustine Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program, or LAMP. Test excavations in 2015-2016 revealed a remarkable amount of material culture, including barrels, cauldrons, pewter plates, shoe buckles, cut stone, and a variety of glass and ceramics. These tentatively dated the vessel to 1750-1800 and suggested its nationality was likely British but possibly...
The Investigation of the Anniversary Wreck, a Colonial Period Shipwreck off St. Augustine, Florida: Results of the First Excavation Season (2017)
In July 2015, a buried shipwreck was discovered off St. Augustine, Florida by the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program, or LAMP, a non-profit organization which serves as the research arm for the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum. A 2 x 1 m test excavation revealed a remarkable amount of material culture, including two barrels, as many as six cauldrons, numerous unidentified concretions, four pewter plates, and a single sherd of brown stoneware. The plates and ceramic tentatively...
Investigation of the CSS Alabama (Legacy 00-109)
This document reports the activities undertaken during the 2000 investigation of the CSS Alabama, a Confederate commerce raider that sank in a channel off the Normandy Peninsula in 190 feet of water. The paper describes the work, including recovery of a cannon, use of underwater TV to record the exposed wreck structure, recovery of exposed artifacts, steps taken to package and send artifacts to Charleston, South Carolina, for conservation, collection of data for a video mosaic, recordation of...
Investigation of the CSS Alabama - Report (Legacy 00-109) (2000)
This document reports the activities undertaken during the 2000 investigation of the CSS Alabama, a Confederate commerce raider that sank in a channel off the Normandy Peninsula in 190 feet of water. The paper describes the work, including recovery of a cannon, use of underwater TV to record the exposed wreck structure, recovery of exposed artifacts, steps taken to package and send artifacts to Charleston, South Carolina, for conservation, collection of data for a video mosaic, recordation of...
Investigations of a Mid-16th Century Iberian Transatlantic Merchant Shipwreck in the Dominican Republic (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. Indiana University is conducting underwater archaeological investigations on a mid-16th century Iberian transatlantic merchant ship in collaboration with the Dominican Republic Ministry of Culture. The site was impacted by commercial salvage from 2011 to 2013. However, current investigations indicate significant site integrity,...
Is it Guerrero? Investigations of an Early Nineteenth Century Shipwreck Near Key Largo, Florida (2021)
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...
Jean Lafitte’s Dorada or the U.S.S. Firebrand: A Remote-Sensing Survey with an Autonomous Surface Vehicle and a Towed Magnetometer (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. An archaeological remote-sensing survey was conducted in search of the U.S.S. Firebrand, formerly known as the Dorada, situated on or near Square Handkerchief Shoal offshore Pass Christian, Mississippi....
La Belle: The Archaeology of a Seventeenth-Century Ship of New World Colonization (2016)
La Belle was a ship used by the seventeenth-century French explorer Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle in his effort to establish a French colony along the northern Gulf of Mexico. Ultimately La Belle wrecked along today’s Texas Gulf Coast in 1686. The wreck was discovered in 1995 and resulted in a multi-year year program of excavation, conservation, interpretation, reporting, and exhibition. This paper will present the results of all these phases of analysis and reporting by summarizing the...
Lake Erie Shipwrecks and Submerged Landscapes: Results from the 2018 Survey (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Submerged Cultural Resources and the Maritime Heritage of the Great Lakes" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A 2018 submerged cultural resources survey conducted by Coastal Environments, Inc., under contract to the Ohio History Connection, focused on the waters off Ashtabula County. The survey was designed to address high probability shipwreck sites and potential areas for submerged landscapes. Geophysical survey was...
The Lake Oneida Durham Boat: A Previously Unrecorded Vessel Type (2016)
A shipwreck recently discovered in Lake Oneida, NY, and recorded by a team of professional and amateur archaeologists, appears to be the remains of an early 19th-century Durham boat. Durham boats plied the inland waters of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic during the 18th and 19th centuries offering an efficient means to transport bulk cargoes during the pre-canal era. While no archaeological example of a Durham boat has been previously identified, this shipwreck closely matches all available...
Laser Scanning the Alexandria, VA Ships for 3D Digital Reconstruction (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Current Research at Texas A&M University's Conservation Research Laboratory" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In early 2018 three ships were discovered during construction along Alexandria, Virginia’s historic waterfront. These three ship remnants were likely scuttled and dismantled in the late 18th, early 19th centuries to be used in banking out efforts to expand the City of Alexandria to bring the shore...
The Late 1570s Manila Galleon Shipwreck in Baja California (2017)
Our fourteen Mexico-United States expeditions from 1999 to 2015 to a wreck site along the desert shore of Baja California, and study of contemporary documents, have enabled us to reconstruct the story of the earliest eastbound Manila galleon shipwreck. The results include dating the ship to the period 1574 through approximately 1578, recovering her history, and explaining her tragic fate. We have discovered lead sheathing with iron nails from her lower hull, large amounts of beeswax from her...
Legacies of an Old Design: Reconstructing Rapid’s Lines Using 3D Modelling Software (2016)
The Shipwrecks of the Roaring Forties Project was conceived to evaluate new ways of investigating the history of Europeans in the Indian Ocean and Western Australia. As a result, several of the formative maritime archaeology projects conducted on Australia’s early colonial shipwrecks were revisited to apply new techniques, such as digital modelling software, to the legacy data. This paper outlines using Rhinoceros 3D modelling software to generate a three-dimensional model of the American China...
A life less than ordinary: The schooner ‘Ocean’ (1821-1865) (2021)
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. The East Winner Bank shipwreck takes its name from the Southern sandbank on Hayling Island near Portsmouth. Examination of the wreck, its fastenings, and framing technology; indicate a 19th Century carvel-built vessel. The sandbank is an active environment, meaning the...
The Lost Fleet of Christopher Columbus and 15th-16th Century Shipwrecks of Colonization in Hispaniola (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Today the most populous island in the Caribbean, Hispaniola was the epicenter of 15th and 16th century contact between peoples of the Old and New World. From Columbus’ first landfall in 1492 to the middle of the 16th century, Hispaniola was the base and administration center for the entire Spanish Caribbean. The early maritime...
Lost in the End of the World - Archaeological Evidence of an 18th Century Shipwreck in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina) (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. The Purísima Concepción was a Spanish frigate which set sail from Cadiz to Lima in 1764. When sailing along the Atlantic coast of Tierra del Fuego close to reaching Cape Hoorn she suddenly went aground and the crew was unable to save...
Luck Plays a Vital Role in Archaeology: The Story of the Fishing Schooner Frances Geraldine (2013)
Southeastern Archaeological Research, Inc. conducted an archaeological investigation of an unknown shipwreck in the Sabine River, Louisiana. A little luck and persistent research identified the shipwreck as the Frances Geraldine, the last schooner built for the Lunenburg, Nova Scotia fishing fleet. The famed shipyard of Smith & Rhuland (builders of the racing fishing schooner Bluenose) constructed the Frances Geraldine in 1944. The Frances Geraldine spent the majority of her career in the...