Shipwrecks (Other Keyword)
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This report builds on a multi-year effort to 1) compile historic and cultural data of U.S. Navy vessels lost in South Carolina waters to document the losses and subsequent wreck history of each vessel, which was used to update the Naval Historical Center's database of shipwrecks, and 2) conduct remote sensing operations on a limited number of shipwreck sites and areas of naval activities, primarily from the Civil War. A detailed inventory was produced, and the document includes a brief history...
Maritime Archaeology and the Slave Trade Towards a Transformative Disciplinary Engagement Reflections from the Slave Wreck’s Project (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Maritime Archeology of the Slave Trade: Past and Present Work, and Future Prospects", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper offers a critical overview of maritime archeology’s limited history of engagement with the slave trade and offers an agenda for an invigorated and socially engaged maritime archeology of the slave trade that can contribute to debates in historiography and to decolonizing...
Maritime archaeology of oil tanker shipwrecks from World War II (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Developing Standard Methods, Public Interpretation, and Management Strategies on Submerged Military Archaeology Sites" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. World War II awakened the industrial power of the United States. Supplying and waging war across two oceans, the US relied on tankers to move oil to its naval fleets and those of its allies. Carrying the fuel that drove the American war machine, these tankers became...
The Maritime Archaeology of Slave Ships: Overview, Assessment and Prospectus (2016)
In one of the most consequential historical processes in global history, over a period of approximately 300 years, more than 12 million enslaved persons were stolen from their homelands in Africa and forcibly placed in the new world. The maritime technology utilized for this shameful trade developed rapidly driven by market forces, while the physical characteristics of ships designed to transport slaves changed over time due to economic, cultural and historical constraints. This presentation...
A Maritime Cultural Landscape Study of St. Croix, USVI (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The maritime cultural landscape is a multidisciplinary theoretical framework that incorporates various data in interpreting the historical relationships, interactions, and influences between humans and the sea. Traditionally, five key categories have been utilized in maritime cultural landscape studies: shipwrecks, land remains,...
Masters of the Sea? Examining the Role of Southeast Asians in Fifteenth Century CE Southeast Asian Maritime Trade (2015)
Current historical and archaeological evidence portrays fifteenth century CE maritime trade in Southeast Asia as a complex and multi-layered landscape. A main argument centers on the factors that shaped the development of this intra-regional trade. Some scholars consider foreign entities (e.g. China and some Indian states) as the primary instruments that heavily influenced Southeast Asian socio-political and economic affairs while others promote Southeast Asian agency and contends that it is the...
Microbial Influenced Corrosion on Accomac (1928-c.1973), A Freshwater, Ferrous-Hulled Shipwreck: Evaluation of Microbial Diversity and Composition in Mallows Bay, MD (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Ecology of Underwater Cultural Heritage: From Microbial Communities to Macrofauna", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Abandoned shipwrecks are sitting at the bottom of oceans and lakes around the world. Over time, microbial-comprised biofilms, can help protect wrecks again chemical corrosion and deterioration or contribute to their deterioration through microbially-influenced corrosion organisms....
Micronesian Resources Study: Truk Underwater Archaeology; Truk's Underwater Museum: a Report on the Sunken Japanese Ships, Federated States of Micronesia (1997)
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Midway 2023: Overview and Initial Results of the 2023 Telepresence Mission to the Battle of Midway (1942) Site (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Exploration-Forward Archaeology Through Community-Driven Research", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the fall of 2023, a NOAA-funded mission by the Ocean Exploration Trust and other partners conducted a series of telepresence-assisted remotely operated vehicle assessments of three sites from the pivotal WWII naval battle of Midway. The carriers USS Yorktown, HIJMS Akagi, and HIJMS Kaga, all previously...
Monsters Of The Gulf Of Mexico: The Impact Of Hurricanes On South Texas History And Archaeological Sites (2018)
South Texas’ coastline has an extensive history ranging from prehistoric occupation to trade and troop movements from both the Mexican-American War and American Civil War often focused on the local ports of Brazos Santiago/Brazos Island and Bagdad. Numerous destructive storms, such as northers and hurricanes, have impacted the south Texas coast and this paper explores the history of these sites and associated archaeological investigations. This includes the maritime site of Brazos...
Morphology and Mineralogy of Consolidated Iron Corrosion Products From Historic Shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico (2015)
Consolidated iron corrosion products (rusticles, tubercles and flakes) were collected from historic shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico before (2004) and after (2014) the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (2010). In all cases the iron corrosion products were stratified. Goethite and lepidocrocite were identified by powder X-ray diffraction in samples before and after the spill. The internal structure of samples collected before the spill has been examined in detail with environmental scanning electron...
Multibeam Swath Bathymetry for Underwater Archaeological Investigations (2015)
Remote sensing technologies have long played an important role in underwater archaeological survey, and among the most recent (and increasingly used) additions to the toolkit is multibeam swath bathymetry, which operates by transmitting sound beams perpendicular to a research vessel's track and then processing the returned sonar data to produce a three-dimensional image of the sea floor. Multibeam survey can be particularly useful in water bodies where conditions are not conducive to other forms...
Mystery Shipwrecks of the Great Barrier Reef: Copper Alloy Analyses (2021)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Contextualizing Maritime Archaeology in Australasia" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over 1000 ship and aircraft wrecks lie scattered across the Queensland coastline. While some are infamous, others are listed as unidentified sites, known only by association to the reefs they are located on. Within the Queensland State Maritime Archaeology Collection, housed at the Museum of Tropical Queensland are over...
The Mystic Schooners of the 20th Century: The Legacy of the Last Sailing Merchant Vessels (2016)
At the dawn of the 20th century, a revival swept the ports of New England ushering in an era of wooden shipbuilding not seen on the Atlantic coast since the Civil War. These vessels, schooner rigged for the coastal trade, were built for bulk, ferrying cargo from southern ports and the Caribbean to the industrial powerhouses of Boston and New York. A builder, based in Mystic, Connecticut, joined in and produced a number of vessels that shared more than the same port of origin; nearly half met...
Navigating the Narrative: Ceramics from Ocean Floor to Museum Door. (2013)
So far, some 200 ceramic sherds representing at least 17 vessel types have been excavated from the early eighteenth century shipwreck (31CR314), Queen Anne’s Revenge, off the coast of North Carolina. This paper will briefly describe this ceramic assemblage, from its global origins to its consumer uses. The main focus, however, will be to tell a story. A story of how many voices of archaeology including conservators, material culture specialists and scientists, are working together to unravel...
New Management Strategies for Submerged Cultural Resources in the U.S. National Park Service. (2015)
With ever increasing stresses to cultural resources in the U.S. National Parks from natural and man-made threats, managers of these resources must evolve and adapt to protect and preserve them all. Some solutions limit or deny access because of the delicate state of the resource or because of the sensitive nature of its history. However, providing access and presenting the past to park visitors in a meaningful way is a primary responsibility of managing places that belong to all Americans. For...
No Way Back from Here: Preliminary Results of the Monterrey Shipwreck Project (2015)
This paper provides an overview and summation of all of the presentations in this symposium. Preliminary findings and interpretations of the data collected during all phases of the Monterrey Shipwreck Project are also presented. These findings and interpretations are based on our current knowledge of these sites, their associated artifact assemblages, and knowledge of the historic and cultural context of the early 19th century Gulf of Mexico. A discussion of the success and failures of some...
Oil and Shipwrecks: An Overview Of Sites Selected For The Deepwater Shipwrecks And Oil Spill Impacts Project (2015)
In 2013 and 2014, C & C Technologies, Inc. joined the multidisciplinary team studying the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on deepwater shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico. C&C’s primary objective is the archaeological analysis of the selected shipwreck sites for the project. The project shipwrecks include 19th Century wooden hull vessels and 20th Century metal-hull vessels, ranging in water depth from 470 to 4,890 feet below sea level . This paper will discuss the wreck selection...
On the Offensive: The Small Arms and Artillery of Monterrey Shipwreck A (2015)
Sailing on the open seas could often be treacherous and the Gulf of Mexico was a theater for such activities with its history of privateering and naval actions. Vessels at that time could be armed both offensively and defensively, but could also be transporting such military cargoes to aid in the many conflicts abounding during the formative early decades of the 19th century. ROV investigations of Monterrey A discovered two collections of small arms and six cannon within the hull remains. Video...
Outreaching from the Gulf: Video Documentation of the Oil Spill Impacts on Deepwater Shipwrecks (2015)
This paper will be written from the perspective of the ten years that passed between the 2004 Deep Gulf Wrecks study and the 2014 BOEM study of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill impacts on shipwrecks. What was innovative and unexpected in 2004 has now become expected in 2014. Dr. Dennis Aig, who headed the video unit in 2004, will discuss the basic protocols, now-primitive video equipment, and improvisation involved in the 2004 project to study the wrecks as examples of developing artificial...
Partnering for Public Education and the Development of an Avocational Maritime Archeological Corps in Biscayne National Park (2016)
In August 2015, the Florida Public Archaeology Network (FPAN) and Biscayne National Park collaborated to provide a Submerged Sites Education and Archaeological Stewardship (SSEAS) program in Biscayne National Park for local recreational divers. The SSEAS program is intended to train recreational divers in the methods of non-disturbance archaeological recording in order to provide them with the skills to independently and responsibly perform tasks associated with monitoring and protecting...
The Penobscot Expedition Archaeological Project: Field Investigations 2000 and 2001 (Legacy 01-133)
This is the final report of a site assessment and multi-component remote-sensing survey of the Penobscot River, Penobscot County, Maine. The project was part of an ongoing effort to research, investigate, and document shipwrecks and other submerged archaeological sites associated with the Penobscot Expedition of 1779, and ultimately develop a management plan for their protection and preservation.
The Penobscot Expedition Archaeological Project: Field Investigations 2000 and 2001 - Report (Legacy 01-133) (2003)
This is the final report of a site assessment and multi-component remote-sensing survey of the Penobscot River, Penobscot County, Maine. The project was part of an ongoing effort to research, investigate, and document shipwrecks and other submerged archaeological sites associated with the Penobscot Expedition of 1779, and ultimately develop a management plan for their protection and preservation.
Personal Possessions and Their Identity Onboard Sixteenth-Century Shipwrecks (2021)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over the last thirty years, there has been a wealth of studies on the archaeological and nautical history of sixteenth-century shipwrecks in Pensacola Bay. This poster focuses, however, on the crew and passengers' personal possessions on the ships of the 1559-1561 Tristán de Luna y Arellano expedition. Surviving artifacts assisted this analysis in developing a comprehensive study of...
Perspectives in Underwater Archaeology - Report (2004)
This report is an overview of the Naval Historical Center's underwater archaeology branch’s duties and responsibilities in regard to sunken vessels and submerged aircraft. The paper discusses future activities.