Saona artillery : implications for inter-island trade and shipboard armaments in the first half of the sixteenth century /
a reinvestigation of all three sixteenth-century sites
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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1994.
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | a reinvestigation of all three sixteenth-century sites an extensive survey for the shipwreck remains of the fleet and Puerto Rico. Many sites were found including three off and their artillery in their correct historical and artillery collections. Webber partially salvaged two of the artillery construction, and sixteenth-century shipboard artillery nomenclature and typologies, wrought-iron artillery tactics. The objective of this thesis is to Between January and July, 1983, Burt D. Webber carried out crews and therefore would have been lightly armed. Two of have been unsalvaged and probably represented complete includes a history of the Mona Passage in the early incomplete. The importance and rarity of the sites suggests interpret and place the three sixteenth-century Saona sites Island, and San Germdn in Puerto Rico during the first half of 1502 in the Mona Passage between the Dominican Republic of the sixteenth century. Sailing in relatively safe operational contexts. Considerable trade developed between Santo Domingo, Saona Island, Salvale6n de HigUey, Mona should be carried out in the future. sites by removing a number of cannons and swivel guns. This sixteenth century, as well as an examination of wrought-iron study examines the salvaged Saona artillery collection, and surviving remains included heavy iron objects such as The initial examination of these sites was brief and the island of Saona which dated to the sixteenth century. the shipwreck sites represent the remains of lightly armed vessels which may have been involved in inter-island trade. waters, vessels engaged in this trade frequently had small wrought-iron artillery and anchors. The sites appeared to |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Anthropology". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | xvi, 191 leaves : illustrations ; maps ; 28 cm. Also available online. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |