Overview of Anémone wreck project 2015-2019 (Les Saintes Guadeloupe French West Indies)

Summary

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 Anémone, a French Naval schooner built in Bayonne in 1823 and sunk in 1824 during the 7th to 8th September hurricane.

The wreck, located in the Saintes Bay (South of Guadeloupe, FWI) in 25 meters of water, looted in the 1990’s had not been investigated before a Ph D thesis proposed to identify the site thank to archival research in 2013.

This paper aims to focus on first result for 5 years on the first multi year underwater excavation which took place in the FWI.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Ship Construction and Shipwrecks: A Journey into Engineering Successes and Failures (General Sessions)   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2021

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