Closing the Books (Cuentas y Quentas)
in The Spanish Convoy of 1750
May 2009; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: underwater archaeology. 3024 words.
Significant portions of the surviving documentation concerning the 1750 flota are financial accounts. In Spanish, the word “account” can carry a narrative as well as a financial meaning. Indeed,...
Conclusion
in Ships' Graveyards
August 2008; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: underwater archaeology. 2418 words.
This chapter summarizes the findings of the research and brings together the common threads found within the preceding chapters. These linked arguments help reinforce the contention that the many...
Conclusions
in Eight Thousand Years of Maltese Maritime History
March 2008; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: underwater archaeology. 3196 words.
This chapter discusses the supposed importance of the island throughout its history. It states that the inflated importance of the islands in modern history is largely an outgrowth of the exaggerated...
Death of a Greyhound
in The Spanish Convoy of 1750
May 2009; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: underwater archaeology. 2387 words.
True to her name, the Galga (greyhound) and her companion prize, the Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes, raced north far ahead of the rest of the flota. While there is a paucity of information on the Mer...
Eight Thousand Years of Maltese Maritime History
March 2008; published online September 2011.
Book. Subjects: underwater archaeology. 400 pages.
For millennia, Malta has always been considered a site of strategic importance. From the arrival of the Phoenicians through rule under Carthage, Rome, Sicilian Arabs, Normans, and Genovese, to the...
Epilogue
in HMS Fowey Lost and Found
January 2009; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: underwater archaeology. 7474 words.
This chapter examines the lessons that can be learned from legal and conservation issues surrounding the HMS Fowey shipwreck found at Legare Anchorage. It discusses the parallels between the...
Ethics, Underwater Cultural Heritage, and International Law
in The Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology
August 2011; published online September 2012.
Article. Subjects: archaeology; underwater archaeology. 11660 words.
Maritime archaeology has given rise to quite a few issues. The meaning of heritage for the society has undergone changes, and thus, ethical discussion has evolved, which is discussed in this article....
Exploring Seward's Icebox
in A Civil War Gunboat in Pacific Waters
December 2010; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: underwater archaeology. 14013 words.
A new role did emerge for the little ship: Following years of service in sweltering tropical climates, the Saginaw and her crew were finally in for a drastic change to a beautiful, cold, and mostly...
The Final Legal Salvo
in HMS Fowey Lost and Found
January 2009; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: underwater archaeology. 4096 words.
This chapter examines the final salvo in Gerald Klein's legal battle for the right to the Legare Anchorage shipwreck. Klein was murdered on January 1, 1982 but his family decided to continue in the...
Finding the “4th of July Wreck,” 1980
in HMS Fowey Lost and Found
January 2009; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: underwater archaeology. 4843 words.
This chapter examines the finding of the shipwreck at the Legare Anchorage in Florida on July 4, 1980. When treasure hunter Gerald Klein filed the claim in the admiralty court for title to a certain...