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The Many Lives of the Equator: History and Archaeological of a 19th-Century Pacific Schooner (Part I) (2024)
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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. Equator was designed and built by one of the most prolific American shipwrights, Matthew Turner, as a two-masted schooner in Benicia, CA, in 1888. Shortly thereafter, it was chartered by Robert Louis Stevenson for his cruise among the islands of Samoa and Kiribati. In 1897, it was sold and converted to a steam tender for Alaskan...