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Asia and Les Baleiniers: A History of Jeremiah Winslow and French Efforts to Encourage a Whaling Industry out of Le Havre in the Early 19th Century (2024)
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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 2022, a team of archaeologists investigated a late 18th- century/early 19th-century wreck site located in Apra Harbor, Guam. The wreck is thought to represent those of the remains of the whaleship Asia, a French whaler that wrecked off the coast of Guam in 1856 and became famous as the backdrop of Dr. Felix Maynard...