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Examining nineteenth century British colonial-built ships, HMS Buffalo and Edwin Fox: two case studies from New Zealand (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kurt Bennett.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Contextualizing Maritime Archaeology in Australasia" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper explores changes in design and construction technologies relating to British colonial-built ships in the nineteenth century. HMS Buffalo and Edwin Fox were built on the banks of the River Hooghly, India, with teams of local and foreign labour. HMS Buffalo was constructed in 1813 and served the British Navy before...