Ship Construction and Shipwrecks: A Journey into Engineering Successes and Failures (General Sessions)

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2021

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Ship Construction and Shipwrecks: A Journey into Engineering Successes and Failures (General Sessions)," at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Other Keywords
Shipwreck • Technology • Shipbuilding • Mediterranean • Piracy • Schooner • galleon • Anémone • slave ship • Everyday

Geographic Keywords
Caribbean • Mediterranean • United Kingdom Coast • Florida, USA, Caribbean

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  • Is it Guerrero? Investigations of an Early Nineteenth Century Shipwreck Near Key Largo, Florida (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Corey Malcom.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Ship Construction and Shipwrecks: A Journey into Engineering Successes and Failures (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. On December 19, 1827, the Havana-based pirate slave ship Guerrero wrecked on a reef off Key Largo, Florida, while being chased by the British Royal Navy schooner HMS Nimble. Forty-one captive Africans drowned when Guerrero sank; the survivors were rescued. Items were...

  • A life less than ordinary: The schooner ‘Ocean’ (1821-1865) (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jack Pink. Julian Whitewright.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Ship Construction and Shipwrecks: A Journey into Engineering Successes and Failures (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The East Winner Bank shipwreck takes its name from the Southern sandbank on Hayling Island near Portsmouth. Examination of the wreck, its fastenings, and framing technology; indicate a 19th Century carvel-built vessel. The sandbank is an active environment, meaning the...

  • Mediterranean shipbuilding: the case study of Calvi I (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Raul O. Palomino Berrocal.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Ship Construction and Shipwrecks: A Journey into Engineering Successes and Failures (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Port of Calvi, located in the island of Corsica, southeast of the French mainland, was for several centuries a center of maritime activity in the Mediterranean. In 1979 French submariner Antoine Roucayrol found the shipwreck named “Calvi I”, the vessel was believed to...

  • Overview of Anémone wreck project 2015-2019 (Les Saintes Guadeloupe French West Indies) (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jean-Sébastien Guibert. Franck Bigot. Hélène Botcazou.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Ship Construction and Shipwrecks: A Journey into Engineering Successes and Failures (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. After five years of field work on Anémone wreck site, this paper aims to present a multi years excavation project begun in 2015 and funded by DRASSM (French Ministry of Culture), Guadeloupe Région, DMPA (French Ministry of Army). The wreck is definitively identified as the...