When the Gales of November Come Howlin’: 2016 Archaeological Investigation of the Adriatic (47DR0208)
Author(s): William J. Wilson
Year: 2018
Summary
Proposed improvements to Berth 1 at the Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding Yard in Sturgeon Bay will require removal of the remains of the self-unloading, wooden schooner barge Adriatic. Built by master shipbuilder James Davidson as a three-masted schooner-barge, the 202-foot long, wooden-hulled Adriatic was launched in 1889 and later converted into a self-unloading barge, one of the earliest examples of what would become an iconic vessel type on the Great Lakes. The vessel spent its final seventeen years hauling crushed stone to locations along the shores of Lake Michigan, and was ultimately abandoned at what would over time become the shoreline of Berth 1. Conducted from November 29th to December 15th, 2016 during a period of what can only be described as extreme cold, Panamerican Consultants, Inc. maritime archaeologists assisted by commercial divers from Veit conducted Data Recovery on the Adriatic as a mitigation component of projected adverse effects.
Cite this Record
When the Gales of November Come Howlin’: 2016 Archaeological Investigation of the Adriatic (47DR0208). William J. Wilson. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441647)
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Keywords
General
Adriatic
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schooner-barge
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Wisconsin
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Late 19th, Early 20th
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 374