Links: Nautical Archaeology

• General
• Museums
• Shipwrecks
• See also Diving

• The Ancient Mariners, review of a video film on underwater archaeology in the Mediterranean and how the finds can give an insight in the evolution of shipbuilding techniques. The video film is part of the PBS Odyssey Series.
• Archaeological Diving Unit, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, Great Britain.
• L'Archéologie sous les mers. The french ministry of culture is pleased to announce a virtual exhibition on the Web dedicated to sub-marine archeology.
• Archaeology & Maritime History, from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
• AssoNet, an Italian server dediacted to Underwater Archaeology.
• Channel Islands Marine Archaeology Resources, Channel Islands National Park, California.
• Charter on the Protection and Management of Underwater Cultural Heritage, ICOMOS (1996).
• Draft Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, UNESCO, April 1998.
• DEGUWA, Deutsche gesellschaft zur Förderung der Unterwasserarchäologie e.V. [In German]
• Dive Sites between Selsey Bill and Brighton
• Explorations: My Quest for Adventure and Discovery Under the Sea, Dr Robert Ballard in an Internet Society Roundtable Discussion, August 2, 1995.
• Fotevikens Maritima Centrum, Höllviken, Sweden [In Swedish].
• Guide to Graduate Programs in Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Society for Historical Archaeology.
• A Guide to Underwater Archaeology resources on the Internet.
• International Journal of Nautical Archaeology.
• International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, Tabels of Content.
• Institute of Maritime History, Cape Neddick, ME, USA, is engaged in the surveing and ecavations of ship wrecks along the New England coast.
• The International Treasure Hunting Exchange.
• Irish Underwater Archaeological Research Team.
• Little Salt Spring Underwater Archaeology Project, Improvments in Digital Video Mosaicking at Little Salt Spring. Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL, USA.
• Marinarkeologi [In Swedish and English]
• Marinarkeologisk Tidskrift [In Swedish]
• Marinearkeologisk Nyhedsbrev fra Roskilde. Maritime Archaeology Newsletter from Roskilde, Denmark.
• MA/MSc in Maritime Archaeology at the Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, Great Britain.
• MAUC - Marinarkeologist Utbildningscentrum, Nynäshamn, Sweden [In Swedish].
• Nautarch, archives of the defunct Nautical Archaeology Discussion List (Nautarch) and how to subscribe to the now de-funct list.
• Pan-American Institute of Maritime Archaeology.
• Ralph K. Pedersen's Nautical Archaeological Web Page. With A GPS-Aided Archaeological Survey in Bahrain.
• Sea of Galilee Boat Project, a Real Audio broadcasting of "Noah Adams speaks with Kurt Raveh, archeologist and co-director of the Sea of Galilee Boat Project" from Nation Public Radio (NPR).
• The simulation of side scan sonar images using ray tracing techniques from computer graphics by Vanessa S. Blake.
• Underwater Archaeology at Florida State University.
• The Underwater Archaeology Society of BC.
• Underwater Science and Educational Resources (USER) at Indiana University, IN, USA.
• Unterwasserarchäologie in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern. [In German]

• Rijksmuseum voor Scheepsarchaeologie, Ketelhaven, The Netherlands [In Dutch]. [1996-06-26: Document missing]
• The Mary Rose, Portsmouth, Great Britain.
• Vasamuseet, Stockholm, Sweden. From the museum of the 64-gun warship Wasa which foundered at its maiden voyage in 1628 and which was raised in 1961.
• The Wasa Museum, Stockholm, Sweden. [One page of information which does not seem to be maintaned]

• @les Dykkeside:), by Atle Toskedal, Bergen, Norway. [In Norwegian]
• Caribbean Shipwreck. A mid 17th century shipwreck being excavated an Earthwatch team at Monti Christi Bay, Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic. [1999-07-10: DNS error]
• Department of the Navy Policy Regarding Custody and Management of U.S. Navy Ship and Aircraft Wrecks. [1999-07-10: DNS error]
• The Emanuel Point Shipwreck, Division of Historical Resources, Florida Department of State.
• Great Lakes Shipwrecks [1999-07-10: DNS error]
• Guide to Historic Ship Wrecks in Great Britain. Descriptions of 41 wreck sites designated under the Protection of Wrecks Act of 1973, together with an explanation of the Act. [1999-07-10: page missing]
• Internet Shipwreck Research Group.
• King Charles I Shipwreck Project.
• Kingston Harbour Shipwreck Project, St. Vincent and The Grenadines. [1999-07-10: page missing]
• Minnesota's Lake Superior Shipwrecks. An Archaeological and Historical Study.
• USS Monitor National Marine Sanctuary
• New Jersey Shipwrecks, from the NJ Scuba.
• North Carolina Wreck Diving by Michael Zimmerman. [1999-07-10: page missing]
• North Carolina's Diveable Shipwrecks. [1999-07-10: page missing]
• Northern Shipwreck Research has information about 40.000 American shipwrecks. [1999-07-10: page missing]
• Wreck of a Vessel from Phip's Fleet of 1690. The archaeological examination of an American built auxilliary vessel at Anse aux Bouleaux. [In French and English] [1999-07-10: page missing]
• Sadana Island Shipwreck Project.
• The Wreck of the Week will feature wrecks of ships that sank on the Great Lakes. [1999-07-10: DNS error]
• Shipwrecked on the Internet. [1999-07-10: page missing]
• The Shipwrecks and Reefs. Shipwrecks off Morehead City, NC, USA. [1999-07-10: page missing]
• Shipwrecks in the Lake of Constance by Martin Mainberger. English abstract, the full original German text seems to missing at the moment [1995-08-23]. [1999-07-10: page missing]
• Sveriges sjunkna skatter. A list of wrecks in Swedish waters. [In Swedish]
• The Underwater Archaeological Preserves, Florida, USA. [1999-07-10: DNS error]
• Victorian Ship Wreck Listing.
• Virginia Shipwrecks.
• The Wreck off Mahdia, Tunisia and the Art Market in early 1st C. B.C. by Brunhilde Sismondo Ridgway. Review article from JRA 8 (1995), pp 340-347 of Das Wrack. Der antike Schiffsfund von Mahdia by Gisela Hellenkemper Salies (ed.), with Hans-Hoyer von Prittwitz und Gaffron and Gerhard Bauchhenß, Rheinland-Verlag GmbH, Köln, 1994. 2 vols., xxiv + 1122 pp, ill., 38 color plates, 2 folding maps. Kataloge des Rheinischen Landesmuseums 1.1-2, Bonn. ISBN 3-7927-1442-6. [1999-07-10: page missing]
• Wrecks and Reefs of the Mid-Atlantic, covering New Jersey, Virginia/Maryland/Delaware, and North Carolina on the East Coast of the United States. [1999-07-10: page missing]

Individual Named Shipwrecks

• CSS Alabama, Naval Historical Center, Washington , DC.
• L'Épave du CSS Alabama, Ministère de la culture [In French]
• CSS Alabama Digital Collection, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library.
• City of Hawkinsville (1886) sank in the Suwannee River, FL, USA, some time after 1922. [1999-07-10: DNS error]
• SS Copenhagen (1898) wrecked in 1900 off the Pompano Beach, FL. [1999-07-10: DNS error]
• The Wreck of The Dunderberg. A schooner which sank sank as a result of a broadside collision in 1868.
• The SS Edmund Fitzgerald Homepage, Michigan State University.
• The wreck of the schooner Esk. The schooner was wrecked on Parramore Island, VA, USA, in 1888.
• The Wreck of the Steam Schooner Eureka by Mike Boring. Sank southeast of Cape Henry, VA, in 1888 after having been in collision with the British steamer Benison.
• Skatter ur djupet, Hvar 8 Dag, 23 maj 1909. [pp 531-]. Utförlig samtida artikel om James Keillers och Carl Lyons bärgningar på ostindiefararen Götheborg år 1906-1907. [In Swedish]
• The wreck of the Swedish 64-gun ship Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotta sunk July 4, 1790, during the "Gauntlet at Vyborg Bay". [1999-07-10: page missing]
• Hanalei Redux, an article by Paul Forsythe Johnston from the Smithsonian magazine Increase & Diffusion on the wreck of the Ha'aheo o Hawaii ex Cleopatra's Barge, the royal yacht of the Hawaiian King Kamehameha II (Liholiho) which was wrecked at Hanalei Bay, Kauai, on April 24, 1824.
• The wreck of the submarine CSS Hunley:
  • C.S.S. Hunley Submarine Recovery Information.
  • CSS Hunley Update. The wreck of the early submarine Hunley was discovered in May 1995 off Sullivan's Island, SC, USA.
  • The Hunley Web Site. News, History and Comment on the Civil War Dicovery of the Century.
• L'Invincible Home Page by Wayne Garrett. HMS Invincible was a originally a French 74-gun ship built in 1744, but which was captured by the Royal Navy at the Battle of Finisterre in 1747.
• The "Kravel" Project, archaeology in deeper water. The survey of a wreck of an early 16th century cravel built ship in 30 to 56 meter of water at Franska Stenarna, Sweden. A collaborative nautical archaeology research project between the Department of Archaeology at the University of Stockholm and the University of Southampton.
• The wreck of the "La Belle", which sank at Matagorda Bay, Texas, in 1686.
• The Remains of the Lottie Cooper. The wreck of a schooner built in 1876 and recovered at Sheboygan in 1992. [1999-07-10: page missing]
• The Maple Leaf Shipwreck. An Extraordinary American Civil War Shipwreck, Jacksonville, Florida, 1864.
• USS Massachusetts (1896) scuttled for target practice off the Pensacola Bay, FL. [1999-07-10: DNS error]
• USS Monitor National Marine Sanctuary.
• The Dutch Submarine O-16, which was sunk by a Japanese mine on 15 December 1941 has been found on the bottom of the Chinese Sea, near the Eastern coast of Malakka. [1999-07-10: page missing]
• The Wreck of HMS Pandora (1791) of HMS Bounty fame being excavated at far Great Barrier Reef by the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Australia.
• The schooner President Coaker which was at Cape Ballard in 1924.
• Queen Anne's Revenge? A wreck discovered off Beaufort, NC, is believed to be the pirate Blackbeard's ship. Division of Archives & History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources.
• Treasure!!. The White Star Line RMS Republic foundered at sea in 1909.
• The SubMap project. Saving the Resurgam, the world's first successful powered submarine.
• The Reverend Garrett's Home Page, featuring the 115 year wreck of the submarine Resurgam. [1999-07-10: page missing]
• Gamla Riksäpplet. [1999-07-10: page missing]
• San Pedro wrecked 1733 off Florida Keys, FL, USA. [1999-07-10: DNS error]
  See also the San Pedro Underwater Archaeological Preserve from the Indiana University, IN, USA.
• The San Pedro de Alcantara wrecked at Peniche, north of Lisbon, in 1768.
• The Krogen project, a collaborative nautical archaeology research project between the Department of Archaeology at the University of Stockholm and the University of Southampton involving the recording of the wreck of the early 19th century English brig Severn.
• The Sinking of the Steamship Sultana near Memphis, Tennessee on April 27, 1865.
• See Titanic.
• Vasa - a history that never ends. [1999-07-10: page missing]
• Regalskeppet Vasa, by Magnus Larsson. [In Swedish] [1999-07-10: request rejected]
• Regalskeppet Wasa by Patrick Persson. [In Swedish] [1999-07-10: page missing]
• The Wasa capsizes. A good summary of the catastrophe and its legal aftermath by Prof. Richard O. Mason. [1999-07-10: page missing]
• The Wreck of the William and Mary, 24th of March 1853 at Great Isaacs.

Copyright © 1996 Lars Bruzelius.