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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: readers point vessel
    sub title: hull analysis of an eighteenth century merchant sloop excavated in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica
  name:
    name part: Cook, Gregory D.
    name part: 1966-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1997
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: remote
    extent: ix, 122 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: (4.34 meters). Shipwrights built the vessel predominantly
  abstract: A&M University, the Jamaican National Heritage Trust and the
  abstract: Archaeologists from the Nautical Archaeology Program at Texas
  abstract: artifacts associated with the vessel- After exposing well-
  abstract: bow to its eroded stem knee, and an intact 'mast step
  abstract: colonies. The vessel was a derelict at the time of its
  abstract: construction, mast step and framing pattern. Archaeologists
  abstract: disassembled mast step prove to expose the sloop's bow
  abstract: eighteenth century. Analysis of the Readers Point vessel and
  abstract: eighteenth-century vessel to be excavated in the West Indies.
  abstract: evidence for a sloop rig. Portions of the vessel were
  abstract: excavated the remains of an eighteenth-century merchant sloop
  abstract: found broken and discarded within the ballast pile or hull
  abstract: identifying the sloop. Regardless, contemporary documents at
  abstract: in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica in 1994. Excavators removed
  abstract: inches (17.22 meters) and a maximum beam of 14 feet, 4 inches
  abstract: its artifact assemblage suggests that the sloop traded among
  abstract: Jamaican Archives in Spanish Town, Jamaica and the National
  abstract: Library of Jamaica in Kingston failed to produce any records
  abstract: Maritime History Program at East Carolina University
  abstract: mast survives in the archaeological record. Numerous repairs
  abstract: out of white oak (Quercus sp.), and the keel is maple (A cer
  abstract: overburden and the ballast pile, recovering over 600
  abstract: preserved hull remains, divers recorded the ship's structure.
  abstract: sinking. Nearly all artifacts associated with the ship were
  abstract: sp.), suggesting constriction in the northeastern American
  abstract: structure. No evidence of the deck structure, bilge pumps or
  abstract: study concentrates on the hull analysis of the first
  abstract: suggest that the vessel saw long service as a merchant
  abstract: the Caribbean islands and North American colonies. This
  abstract: The hull remains are preserved to a length of 56 feet, 6
  abstract: the use of sloops in maritime commerce during the later
  abstract: The vessel is preserved from the base of the apron 'in the
  abstract: then reburied the remains under sediment and ballast stone.
  abstract: these locations provided relevant historic data relating to
  abstract: trader. Exhaustive searches of historic documents at the
  note: by Gregory D. Cook.
  note: "Major subject: Anthropology".
  note: Vita.
  note: Also available online.
  note: Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.
  note: M.S. Texas A&M University 1997.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Major anthropology
  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1997-THESIS-C67
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      url: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1997-THESIS-C67
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 980203
    record change date: 20220103134538.0
    record identifier: in00001396394