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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Cheryl Ward's studies of the Sadana wreck in the Red Sea have raised new questions about the architectural nature of wrecks discovered in the Red Sea such as Umm Lajj or Sharm-el-Sheikh. The wreck on Sadana Island, along with others discovered in ports further east, mean that we cannot rely solely on the material used in...
Basque Shipwrecks Over Three Centuries: Building A Long-term View (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. Canada has a remarkable record of Basque wrecks from the 16th to 18th centuries. On sites from Labrador to Chaleur Bay, archaeologists have investigated eight ships and four small boats built in different ports of the Basque Country. If we include earlier presumed Basque wrecks in Europe and the Caribbean, the record covers 300...
"Doubled with wood in every direction": The Hull Structure and Outfitting of a Royal Navy Ship of Polar Exploration (2013)
The largely intact wreck of HMS Investigator provides a unique opportunity to study the remains of a 19th-century Royal Navy ship of polar exploration. Purchased into the Navy in 1848 while still building on the stocks as a merchant vessel, Investigator was comprehensively modified for Arctic Service at Blackwall under the supervision of William Rice, Master Shipwright at Woolwich Dockyard. These modifications focussed mainly on reinforcing the hull to better withstand the destructive forces...
Not on an Even Keel: An Archeological Investigation and Interpretation of the Structural Remains of HMS Fowey (1748). (2015)
One of the primary objectives of the expanded archeological testing of the HMS Fowey shipwreck site was to gather the information necessary to define the extent of future stabilization efforts at the site. Given the substantial loss of archeological material since the site’s initial discovery in 1978, the evaluation and documentation of the surviving intact hull structure was paramount. In addition to providing a thorough documentation of the archeological remains of the surviving structural...