The readers point vessel : hull analysis of an eighteenth century merchant sloop excavated in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica /
(4.34 meters). Shipwrights built the vessel predominantly
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | (4.34 meters). Shipwrights built the vessel predominantly A&M University, the Jamaican National Heritage Trust and the Archaeologists from the Nautical Archaeology Program at Texas artifacts associated with the vessel- After exposing well- bow to its eroded stem knee, and an intact 'mast step colonies. The vessel was a derelict at the time of its construction, mast step and framing pattern. Archaeologists disassembled mast step prove to expose the sloop's bow eighteenth century. Analysis of the Readers Point vessel and eighteenth-century vessel to be excavated in the West Indies. evidence for a sloop rig. Portions of the vessel were excavated the remains of an eighteenth-century merchant sloop found broken and discarded within the ballast pile or hull identifying the sloop. Regardless, contemporary documents at in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica in 1994. Excavators removed inches (17.22 meters) and a maximum beam of 14 feet, 4 inches its artifact assemblage suggests that the sloop traded among Jamaican Archives in Spanish Town, Jamaica and the National Library of Jamaica in Kingston failed to produce any records Maritime History Program at East Carolina University mast survives in the archaeological record. Numerous repairs out of white oak (Quercus sp.), and the keel is maple (A cer overburden and the ballast pile, recovering over 600 preserved hull remains, divers recorded the ship's structure. sinking. Nearly all artifacts associated with the ship were sp.), suggesting constriction in the northeastern American structure. No evidence of the deck structure, bilge pumps or study concentrates on the hull analysis of the first suggest that the vessel saw long service as a merchant the Caribbean islands and North American colonies. This The hull remains are preserved to a length of 56 feet, 6 the use of sloops in maritime commerce during the later The vessel is preserved from the base of the apron 'in the then reburied the remains under sediment and ballast stone. these locations provided relevant historic data relating to trader. Exhaustive searches of historic documents at the |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Anthropology". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | ix, 122 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Also available online. Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |