Piecing together a puzzle - HMB Endeavour and Photogrammetric 3D Reconstruction

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This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Since 1999, the Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) has worked with the Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Program (RIMAP) to search for the remains of Lord Sandwich, a British troop transport sunk in Newport Harbor during the American Revolution. Lord Sandwich is perhaps best known as the former HMB Endeavour, the vessel used by Lieutenant James Cook during his first voyage of exploration to the Pacific. In 2018, a shipwreck site in Newport Harbor was tentatively identified by RIMAP, ANMM and the Silentworld Foundation as Lord Sandwich/ex-HMB Endeavour. Due to poor water clarity, the team turned to the technique of Photogrammetric 3D Reconstruction (P3DR) to record the site. This paper will discuss the methods used to collect P3DR imagery during the 2018 investigations, and address how these data aided in the identification of a vessel whose voyage of exploration led to the European occupation of Australia.

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PaperId(s): 872