Mediterranean shipbuilding: the case study of Calvi I

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.

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 date back to the end of the 16th century due to the ceramic material present in the context. For the next years, various excavations were conducted which published graphical records of the structural elements of the remains. The present paper aims to use the previously recovered information to reconstruct the Calvi I ship to its original state. The reconstruction will be done in two-dimensional and three-dimensional settings in order to properly analyze the hull. The objective is to compare the results to the ones obtained from the Santiago de Galicia, a contemporaneous galleon, to have a better comprehension of Mediterranean shipbuilding and structural efficiency.

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

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