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FROM HOMER'S GREIXK vzx TOTHE REDISCOVERYOF THETITANIC Shipwrecks aeo p EDITED BY T , • rockmorton i I 1 ARCHBISHOP MITTY LIBRARY ArchbishopMrttyHighSchool m SnfT. 5129 THE SEA REMEMBERS Shipwrecks and Archaeology Edited by PeterThrockmorton From Homer's Greece to the Rediscoveryofthe Titanic W I I I ArchbishopMtttyHighSchoo KS|>| Library Weidenfeld&NicolsonNewYork - 56?a******WaV SanJose,CA.95129 Contributors GeneralEditor WarrenRiess SenioreditorJamesHughes PeterThrockmorton Assistantcurator,NewportNews ArteditorPaulWilkinson AdjunctProfessor,NovaUniversity MaritimeMuseum. CartographiceditorStephenRogers OceanographicCenter,Dania,Florida. EditorsElizabethHubbard,JuliaGorton StephenRogers PictureresearchGillianLythgoe, WillardBascom Marinebiologist,researcherandwriter. Marie-LouiseCollard Professionaloceanographerand Editorialresearchandwriting engineer.Deepwaterarchaeology RogerC.Smith MargaretCrowther,StephenRogers, pioneer. Assistantprofessor,InstituteofNautical ZuzaVrbova Archaeology,TexasA&M. ProductionPhilipCollyer, MensunBound NinkiKinirons DirectorofMaritimeArchaeological SheliSmith ResearchDepartment(mare),Oxford PhDNauticalArchaeology,Universityof ReconstructionsStephenBiesty, University. Pennsylvania. RogerFinch MapsLovellJohnsLtd EmilyCain DavidSwitzer AdditionalartworkRoyFlooks, ResearchandCo-ordinatingOfficer, ProfessorofHistory,PlymouthState HaywardandMartin Hamilton-ScourgeProject,Hamilton, College,NewHampshire. Ontario. Editedanddesignedby ShelleyWachsmann MitchellBeazleyInternationalLtd, MargaretCrowther InstituteofMaritimeArchaeology, ArtistsHouse,14-15ManetteStreet, Archaeologicalspecialist,researcher Caesarea,Israel. LondonW1V5LB,England andwriter. Copyright©1987MitchellBeazley AngelaEvans Publishers Archaeologist,MedievalandLate Department,BritishMuseum,London. Allrightsreserved.Noreproductionof thisbookinwholeorinpartorinany AnneG.Giesecke formmaybemadewithoutwritten FounderHistoricPreservationSociety, authorizationofthecopyrightowner. movementfortheprotectionofhistoric shipwrecks. PublishedbyWeidenfeld&Nicolson, NewYork,ADivisionofWheatland JCuerrateomr,yWGerseteernnAustralianMaritime YCoorrkp,orNatYio1n0,0122East53rdStreet,New Museum. PublishedinCanadaby VictoriaJenssen GeneralPublishingCompany,Ltd. Conservator,NauticalArchaeology Division,ParksCanada. FirstpublishedinGreatBritainin1987 MichaelKatzev byMitchellBeazleyInternationalLtd Vice-PresidentoftheInstituteofNautical LibraryofCongress ArchaeologyofTexas.Directorofthe Cataloging-in-PublicationData KyreniaShipProject. Thesearemembers PNaavraklerarcMhaitreecta.nDesignerandspecialist n IBnicblluidoegsraipnhdyex:.p. shipstabilitystudies. 1.Underwaterarchaeology. 2. Shipwrecks. CDiorleicntorM,arSctoitntishInstituteofMaritime CI.CT7h7ro.cUk5mSo3rt9on,Peter. Studies,UniversityofStAndrews. 1987 930.1'028'04 87-14273 ISBN1-55584-093-0 JamesMavor WEmoeorditsusHoPlreofOecsesoarnoogfrOacpehaincEInnsgtiinteuteer.ing, SFtialfmfsoertd,byEnHgoluarndd.sTOryipgoignraatpihoincbay, DesignerofdeepwatersubmersibleAlvin. GilchristBrosLtd,Leeds,England. J.S.Morrison GPrraifnitceadaSAn,dBbaorucnedlobnyaPDrLinBte2r2I1nd8u3s-tr1i9a87 FormerPresidentWolfsonCollege, CCaammbbrriiddggee..DirectoroftheTriremeTrust, FirstEdition 10987654321 A.J.Parker Seniorlecturer,DepartmentofClassics andArchaeology,UniversityofBristol. Contents Editor'sAcknowledgments 6 6 Medievalwarshipsandtraders Foreword LordBullock, FBA 7 NorthSeatraders ColinMartin 134 Gunsandsails ColinMartin 138 1 Diving intothepast Shipsoftheline ColinMartin 148 Introduction PeterThrockmorton 8 7 Eastern Horizons TheroadtoGelidonya PeterThrockmorton 14 SailorsinthetimeofTroy IntroductionJeremyGreen 152 PeterThrockmorton 24 Arabdhows StephenRogers 155 Chineseocean-goingshipsJeremyGreen 158 2 TheancientMediterranean Kublai Khan'sinvasionofJapan JeremyGreen 166 AtAIhrnnecthrAToaeydirgucrechataeinnnodinAaCtnPlleaaStsneestiiracsaTMJlhearcnmoasceruksgmnoMoerBsatovfoournrnomd 433274 CEPaaespttetraIinTndhirCaoomcoekknmoiJnrettroheenmPyacGirfeicen 117618 AnAthenianwarshiprecreated 8 TheAgeofDiscovery J.S. Morrison 44 Phoenicianexplorers MargaretCrowther 50 The Kyreniashiprestored MichaelKatzev 55 Introduction PeterThrockmorton 172 TradeandpiracyintheWestIndies 3 From Rometo Byzantium RogerC. Smith 174 SpanishtreasurefleetsStephenRogers 183 Introduction PeterThrockmorton 60 Theshipbeneath Manhattan WarrenRiess 185 Theamphora:jerrycanofantiquity PeterThrockmorton,A.J. Parker 64 9 Men-o'-warand privateers Amilliontonsofmarble PeterThrockmorton,A.J. Parker 72 ThesearemembersNelson Shipwrecks,anchors,and StPaul PeterThrockmorton 188 PeterThrockmorton 78 Privateers, notpirates DavidSwitzer 194 TBhyzeaGnatliinleeeshbiopastPSehteelrleTyhrWoacckmhosrmtaonn,n 81 NLiafpeoaltesoena'sShgeulnisSmSihetlhleyWachsmann 210992 A.J. Parker 84 NavalwrecksfromtheGreat Lakes EmilyCain 206 4 Reconstructionandconservation 10 Thetwilightofsail TSPhhairepkseshrtiaMpbawilrriietgyah,nta'nscairetntPeatnedrTmhordoecrknmorton 10912 TBhoenecsliopnperasbheiapchPePteetreTrhTrhorcokcmkomrotrotnon 221105 Archaeologyandconservation Elissa:reincarnationofaniron barque VictoriaJenssen 102 Peter Throckmorton 218 5 DarkAgeseafarers 11 Thefutureofthepast IntroductionAngelaEvans 106 Futuresites PeterThrockmorton 220 SaintsandskinboatsAngelaEvans 108 Deepwatersalvageandarchaeology ThecomingoftheAnglo-Saxons WillardBascom 222 AngelaEvans 112 Thefutureunderwater/^nneG. Giesecke 226 AkinglyburialAngelaEvans 116 Bibliographyandchapternotes 228 SwansoftheSeaGod ColinMartin 122 TheVikingworld ColinMartin 128 Glossary 232 Index 234 Acknowledgments 240 Editor's acknowledgments amIltleistthioembpioensfcsloiumbelenecaeisnntaahuatfitecwmalawdaorercdhitsapetoooslsodigebislscetrifbore mpHrearerrsieetsnihtmoeifnfp'atsshtedeadenepsdikhgnnoowawnlidterdceoglneattroeufdcttthoieotnheof ainndd,ebftienadlltyo,eBdriutcoeroNfotrhmisanbooofk.thIeaBmBC, shiIpfsm.ylateprofessorsMargaretMead jwohb,otfoirPstauslugWgielsktiendsoInsthhoeulddestiagkneero,natnhde atondfoCllleolwlamnyFobrednthaanddnobteeanmcaovuerraigcekdme tboeyJoanmdesthHeungohremsa,lwohnoeopflapyuebdliashreorl'esfar wshaonudledrenrevienrthheavmeargiottitmeenwtooraldp,oiInt editor. wheremyideasaboutunderwater ThereconstructionsbyRogerFinch excavationmadesenseandreceived andStephenBiestydeserveaspecial encouragementfromVirginiaGraceand mention.Thesearenotjustpretty thelateRodneyYoung. pictures;practicallyeverydetailisdrawn Withouttheactiveinspirationofthe fromarchaeologicalevidence.Inthecase lateJamesDugan,whosecontributionto oftheYassiAdaship,wehaveforthefirst scienceintheseahasnotbeenproperly toinmedaptraofdruocmedanaatrecchhaneioclaolgaincaallysisbased rinecTougrnkiezyeda,ftIerwo1u9l58d,naenvderGheaovregegoBnaesson earxcchaivtaetcit,onP,arpkreerpaMraerdeabny.anEaecmhinoefntthenaval aGenldidIownoyual.dnothavegottentoCape drawings,whichaimtocombine IfPeterStanford,founderoftheSouth technicalaccuracywithdynamismof StreetSeaportMuseum,andKarlKortum viewpoint,isbasedoncurrent oftheSanFranciscoMaritimeMuseum, knowledge.Butwemustalwaysbearin hadnotinspiredme,SnowSquall,St mindthatevenmarineexpertsdisagree MaryandElissamightneverhave tohneOfnliantteehpeForisoncehtlosilcoahfrlRdyeatisaniiedley.,,Iwahmoitnaduegbhttedmeto fbhayacpiDlpiretinJeeusdlai.nandIaMcmocoCeprseepreaacrtiyiaolalnnydegxrttaheteenffduaelcduflottroytmhee toglimpsesomeofthemysteryand andstaffofNovaUniversity arrocmhaanecoleogofisHtosmCearr;laBlnedgteontahnedlaStiergreat tOhcaenaknfoulgrfaoprhtihceCheenltpegr.ivIeanmmealsboyvmeyry MortimerWheeler,whoencouragedme wife,CatherineGatesThrockmorton. tofollowthatstar. 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From the ships of Homers Greece right up to the rediscovery of the Titanic, Peter Throckmorton was able to explain underwater archaeology in an interesting and readable way - even for those who feel the content of any book on such a subject would be right over their head. This man knew his subject,
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