Hard Times on Coastal Patrol
in A Civil War Gunboat in Pacific Waters
December 2010; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: underwater archaeology. 11379 words.
A break from hard service was long overdue for the Saginaw, but the end of the Civil War did not alleviate the duties of the Pacific Squadron in Mexico. In fact, with the reports of thousands of...
Hawaiˋi and the End of the Archipelago
in A Civil War Gunboat in Pacific Waters
December 2010; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: underwater archaeology. 15397 words.
In Hawai`i, the 1860s were a continuing extension of a period of enormous change. Contact with the West had started as an inter-island trade in provisions, gathering supplies to the ports of Lahaina...
HMS Fowey Lost
in HMS Fowey Lost and Found
January 2009; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: underwater archaeology. 5019 words.
This chapter examines the history of the lost HMS Fowey, a fifth-rate frigate of the British Royal Navy. It discusses the trial and deposition made by the ship's captain Francis William Drake,...
HMS Fowey Lost and Found
January 2009; published online September 2011.
Book. Subjects: underwater archaeology. 272 pages.
Sunken treasure may seem like the stuff of legends and movies, but the seas still hold prizes to be found. HMS Fowey was a small ship, carrying 44 guns and over 200 men, captained by a descendant of...
Hunting Pirates
in The Spanish Convoy of 1750
May 2009; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: underwater archaeology. 4586 words.
The vast wealth of the Spanish fleet attracted dozens of men, like buzzards circling stricken prey, seeking to pick clean the goods that foreigners could not protect. At the same time, the British...
Identification of the Fowey
in HMS Fowey Lost and Found
January 2009; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: underwater archaeology. 7348 words.
This chapter examines the final identification of the shipwreck at the Legare Anchorage in Florida. The interpretation of the ceramic and glass assemblages suggested a date between 1740 and 1750 and...
Introduction
in A Civil War Gunboat in Pacific Waters
December 2010; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: underwater archaeology. 2853 words.
This chapter traces the history of the discovery of the wreck that turned out to be the remains of the navy gunboat USS Saginaw, a wooden side-wheel steamer that was lost at Kure Atoll on October 29,...
Introduction
in Eight Thousand Years of Maltese Maritime History
March 2008; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: underwater archaeology. 1819 words.
This introductory chapter discusses the Maltese Islands, which have a reputation of being an important commercial and military crossroads in the history of the Mediterranean. It begins with a...
Introduction
in Ships' Graveyards
August 2008; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: underwater archaeology. 6676 words.
This chapter discusses the research for the Abandoned Ships Project and the concept of abandoning watercrafts. It presents the abandoned ships in Australian maritime archaeology and introduces a...
Introduction
in The Spanish Convoy of 1750
May 2009; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: underwater archaeology. 658 words.
The extremes with which Mother Nature confronts people and their institutions force them to react immediately and decisively. Such was the case with the Atlantic hurricane of mid-August 1750, which...