The Search for Vasco da Gama’s Lost Ships - Esmeralda and São Pedro
Author(s): Peter Holt
Year: 2018
Summary
Two Portuguese ships from Vasco da Gama’s second voyage to India, left behind to disrupt maritime trade through the Red Sea, were wrecked during a storm in 1503 on the coast of Al Hallaniyah Island, Oman. The remains of at least one of the ships was found in 1998 prompting a search for the second ship that was undertaken in 2013 as a collaborative project with Oman’s Ministry of Heritage and Culture. A marine geophysical survey of the area identified a number of targets which were investigated by divers. The survey results were also used to create detailed topographic maps which provided more information about the site formation processes that affected the shipwreck located in 1998.
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The Search for Vasco da Gama’s Lost Ships - Esmeralda and São Pedro. Peter Holt. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441909)
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Keywords
Geographic Keywords
United Kingdom
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Western Europe
Temporal Keywords
1500
Spatial Coverage
min long: -8.158; min lat: 49.955 ; max long: 1.749; max lat: 60.722 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 460