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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: His Majesty's hired transport schooner Nancy
  name:
    name part: Sabick, Christopher R.
    name part: 1973-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Crisman, Kevin J.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: remote
  abstract: In 1997 a group of archaeologists from Texas A&M University's Nautical Archaeology Program traveled to Wasaga Beach, Ontario to document the hull remains of the eighteenth-century schooner Nancy. In 1927, the schooner was recovered from the banks of an island in the Nottawasaga River, near its confluence with Lake Huron. The hull is now on display in the Nancy Island Historic Site. Despite being available to the public for more than 75 years, the 1997 documentation was the first to thoroughly record the construction of the vessel. The hull data have become the basis for an on-paper reconstruction of the vessel. In addition to archaeological investigation, historical research was carried out to further our understanding of Nancy's commercial and naval career.The archaeological data reveal a schooner that was built by talented shipwrights using the fine timber harvested around the Great Lakes in the eighteenth-century. This study adds a considerable amount of new information to the otherwise scanty base of knowledge available on the construction of early Great Lakes sailing vessels. Historical research shows that Nancy and her crews were participants in many important events that shaped the Great Lakes Region. From her construction in Detroit in 1789, Nancy was employed in the fur trade. As tensions flared between Great Britain and the United States in 1812, Nancy was utilized as an armed transport for the British forces around the lakes. in August of 1814, the schooner was trapped in the Nottawasaga River by a strong American naval force. Nancy's commander set fire to the vessel to deny it to the enemy.This thesis examines the construction details and history of the schooner Nancy in detail. Preliminary chapters will provide the historical context for the vessel and describe Nancy's long journey that ended at the Nancy Island Historic Site. The second half of the thesis describes the construction of the schooner and compares it with other contemporary vessels. The st…
  note: by Christopher R. Sabick.
  note: "Major Subject: Anthropology"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created on Sep. 21, 2005.)
  note: Vita.
  note: Abstract.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  note: System requirements: World Wide Web access and Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  note: M. A. Texas A&M University 2004.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Thesis).
  subject:
    topic: Major anthropology
  subject:
    topic: nautical archaeology
  subject:
    topic: War of 1812
  subject:
    topic: merchant
  subject:
    topic: Fur trade
  subject:
    topic: schooner
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/2190
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 070111
    record change date: 20151104121859.0
    record identifier: in00002208841