ABSTRACT USS Emmons is an American Second World War battleship of that sunk off Kouri Island in Okinawa, Japan, as a result of participating in the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. It was attacked by Kamikaze Special Attack Units and became inoperable. A high-quality 3D Structure-from-Motion (SfM) model was created that served to plan diver-based investigations and record the current state of the site. Together

Published in International Journal of Nautical Archaeology (Ahead of Print, 2022)

Published in International Journal of Nautical Archaeology (Ahead of Print, 2022)

Published in International Journal of Nautical Archaeology (Ahead of Print, 2022)

ABSTRACT In the waters of the Southern Baltic, off the island of Stora Ekön, lies the wreck of a ship lost in 1495 belonging to King John (Hans) of Denmark (1455–1513). This paper draws on the archaeological investigation of the site since 2013 and summarizes previous archaeological and historical research. In its design, construction, and weapons technology the ship is both a rare example of a large

ABSTRACT The shipwreck was discovered in 2012 close to the shoreline of the ancient settlement of Phanagoria, Taman Peninsula, Russia. In 2014, a bronze casing decorated with a crescent and star, a symbol associated with the Kingdom of Pontus and the reign of Mithridates VI Eupator, was discovered 1.5 m to the west of the keel’s extremity. In 2019, the site was re-opened to complete the study of the

(2022). Shipwreck Hauntology: Underwater Ruins and the Uncanny. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT The Akko Tower shipwreck was found in 4.4 m of water, 35 m north of the Tower of Flies at the entrance to Akko harbour, on the Mediterranean coast of Israel. The hull remains were covered by a significant amount of stones, apparently used as ballast. It seems to have been a 25-m long merchantman, constructed in the mid-1850s using timber from forests along the southern Black Sea coast. This

(2022). Liburnians and Illyrian Lembs. Iron Age Ships of the Eastern Adriatic. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT The harbour structures that form the subject of this study are some of the best-preserved examples in western Anatolia. A plan of Adramytteion city harbour has been drawn to evaluate the character of the harbour architecture and identify different types of blocks used. Together with geo-radar and geomagnetic survey, these data have been used to consider the construction techniques and phases

ABSTRACT In the Byzantine period, Helenopolis was one of the most important landing places on the southern coast of the Nicomedia Gulf, located, according to historical sources, on the main sea route from Constantinople to Nicaea. Although historical sources mention a pier in Dilburnu, there is no record of a lighthouse on the cape. This article provides details of two harbour structures that were

(2022). La navegación en Mesoamérica. Modelo de conectividad entre la costa del Pacifico y el Altiplano Central (1200–1521 d. C.), BAR Int. Series 3013. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT South Africa has a rich and diverse collection of shipwrecks along its coast. It is of utmost importance to protect and conserve these underwater cultural heritage resources through adequate legislation. The country implemented new conservation legislation in the form of the National Heritage Resources Act in 1999, which provides for comprehensive heritage resource management. The sections

ABSTRACT In protracted litigation over a shipwreck site code-named the ‘Black Swan’ by Odyssey Marine Exploration, Spain prevailed by showing that the site is in fact the Spanish Royal Navy Frigate Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes, sunk in combat in the 5 October 1804 Battle of Cape Saint Mary. Identification of the site was crucial to Spain’s successful effort to defeat Odyssey Marine Exploration's

ABSTRACT This article documents and presents the range of wooden fishing and cargo-carrying watercraft in use in the contemporary Zanzibar Channel, Tanzania. The work is based on surveys conducted in 2018 on Unguja, the principal island of the Zanzibar archipelago, and in 2019–2020 in Bagamoyo, mainland Tanzania, and its immediate environs. The authors present a broad typology of the principal wooden

ABSTRACT This article documents master logboat-builder Alalae Mohamed’s construction of a ngalawa fishing vessel in Bagamoyo, Tanzania. The ngalawa is an extended logboat with double outrigger and lateen sail used by low-income, artisanal fishers. It is the most common marine vessel type of the East African coast. This article follows the construction process from Alalae’s selection and the felling

ABSTRACT In 1880, the third Gokstad boat (G3) was excavated together with the Gokstad ship in Sandefjord, Norway. The Viking boat is clinker-built, about 8 m long, has five strakes and four pairs of rowlocks. We have documented, pieced together, and interpreted 223 fragments of the boat. We present the documented fragments in the context of two other small boats from the same excavation. We have explored

ABSTRACT As part of an investigation of indigenous navigation in the Rio de la Plata basin, four dugout canoes were located in Uruguayan collections. They were recorded using a form, photographs, and drawings. Samples were taken for radiocarbon dating, and dates range from 253BP±20 to 105 ± 20 BP. The analysis of nautical features allows for possible identifications of origin, one canoe being local

ABSTRACT The characteristics, spatial distribution, and date of five phallic ceramic vessels excavated at the late medieval fishing settlement of Walraversijde are discussed. This is followed by an overview of similar finds known from Poland, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, and the United Kingdom. The information from both, enhanced with insights from the literature, leads to the hypothesis

Published in International Journal of Nautical Archaeology (Vol. 50, No. 2, 2021)

Published in International Journal of Nautical Archaeology (Vol. 50, No. 2, 2021)

Published in International Journal of Nautical Archaeology (Vol. 50, No. 2, 2021)

Published in International Journal of Nautical Archaeology (Vol. 50, No. 2, 2021)

Published in International Journal of Nautical Archaeology (Vol. 50, No. 2, 2021)

Published in International Journal of Nautical Archaeology (Vol. 50, No. 2, 2021)

Published in International Journal of Nautical Archaeology (Vol. 50, No. 2, 2021)

Published in International Journal of Nautical Archaeology (Vol. 50, No. 2, 2021)

(2021). Editorial. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology: Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 1-2.

ABSTRACT Human activity along the Amalfi coastline in Italy has been tied to the sea for millennia – for sustenance, migration, trade, warfare, and leisure. As a result, this region has an equally rich and extensive maritime cultural landscape composed of tangible and intangible elements. In 2016, a multi-disciplinary project began efforts to model and to understand changes within this landscape, and

ABSTRACT Iconography from the Late Roman period to at least the 12th century AD shows the use of a hook-shaped masthead on sailing vessels. Hook-shaped mastheads are shown not only on lateen-rigged but also on square-rigged vessels. Recent discoveries in archaeological contexts allow us to suggest that the shape was not necessary to keep the halyard as far forward of the mast as possible, to facilitate

ABSTRACT A Roman inscribed grave stela with a rare depiction of a sprit-rigged vessel was discovered in 1998 in the west necropolis of Saraylar on Marmara Island (ancient Proconnesos, modern Balıkesir Province, Turkey). Dated to the 2nd–3rd century AD, it was stolen in 2002 and recovered in 2016, and is now housed at the Bandırma Archaeological Museum. This article details new information provided

ABSTRACT The Deadman’s Island (8SR782) and Town Point (8SR983) shipwrecks are unidentified vessel remains that were archaeologically investigated and interpreted as small stripped and abandoned vessels from the British Occupational Period of Pensacola (1763–1781). The wrecks are located in an 18th-century British Royal Navy careenage called Old Navy Cove at the landform known as Deadman’s Island near

(2021). A Response to ‘Cutwaters Before Rams’. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology: Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 189-193.

ABSTRACT On 10 March 241 BC the last naval battle of the 1st Punic War was fought off Sicily in the Aegates (modern Egadi) Island group. A large debris field on the sea-floor northwest of Levanzo Island is clearly the result of the battle between Rome and Carthage. In a controlled experiment, replica artefacts were dropped into the sea over the battle zone and their movements tracked to reveal certain

ABSTRACT In 2012, a mechanical excavator unearthed the remains of a 14th-century boat while restoring the moat at Vordingborg Castle, Denmark. The boat-find was documented and both dendrochronological and metallurgical investigations were conducted. The trees that were used to build the boat were felled 1355–1366 in the region around Gdańsk, Poland. However, the building of the boat was probably conducted

ABSTRACT On October 2016, during a geophysical survey in the Naples harbour aimed at evaluating its geo-archaeological potential, a wooden-hulled shipwreck was found along with a large amount of wreckage material. Cartographic evidence and preliminary underwater survey of the shipwreck have led its identification as the corvette Flora, which was deliberately burned 8 January 1799, along with five other

ABSTRACT This article describes the ceramic and saddle quern cargoes recorded on a Phoenician shipwreck found off Xlendi Bay, Gozo, dated by the finds to 700-650 BC. The ceramics are divided into three main groups: Tyrrhenian-style amphoras, Phoenician-Punic western amphoras, and large ollas. Discussion of the likely provenance of each type allows preliminary proposals concerning the ship's route.

(2021). Patrice Pomey 15 August 1943–7 March 2021A Life Spent Sailing Ancient Seas. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology: Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 217-219.

(2021). Visualizing Harbours in the Classical World. Iconography and Representation Around the Mediterranean. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology: Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 234-235.

ABSTRACT Portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF) was used to analyse five 17th and 18th-century bronze Dutch East India Company (VOC) cannon stored in the Huế Royal Antiquities Museum. They exist at the intersection of different relationships between the Vietnamese Trịnh Lords and the VOC, with analysis revealing variations in manufacturing quality and decoration. One cannon in particular, Cannon 54, exhibits

ABSTRACT The Saint Nicholas Bay Shipwreck (SNBS) lies in 4 m of water near Chernomorets, Bulgaria. The wreck was studied in a rescue excavation in 2015. Design and construction point to the second half of the 19th century and Mediterranean European provenance. Analysis of fastenings attributes the ship’s origin to the Adriatic coast of the Austro-Hungarian Empire linking its construction with the prominent

(2021). Did the Minoans have Storage Shipsheds? A Palaeogeographic Perspective. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology: Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 194-209.

ABSTRACT Little information is available about the role of primitive watercraft in maritime life along the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. The only examples are six logboats discovered by chance in Eastern Bulgaria in four different environments: inland marsh, sand strip, coastal lake, and deep sea. Four of the logboats are complete and well preserved, one is in five pieces, one has only the bottom and

ABSTRACT It has been known that a large, clinker-built shipwreck lies on the seabed near the Hotel Bellevue in Dalarö in the Stockholm archipelago since the 1960s. The wreck has been the subject of several small-scale archaeological investigations. This article reports the results of recent marine archaeological fieldwork that concluded that the Bellevue wreck is the remains of a late medieval ship

(2021). George F. Bass 1932–2021. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology: Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 210-213.

ABSTRACT The remains of a wooden hull were exposed in 2012 near Precenicco, Italy, beside the Stella River. In 2014 it was exacavated and recovered as a single unit. Radiocarbon dated to the 11th–13th century AD, it has a flat bottom with no keel, but curved sides and a smooth turn of the bilge, atypical of riverboats. Its internal structure, with alternating L-shaped floor-timbers with one futtock

(2021). The Stirling Castle, a 70-Gun Ship Lost in the Great Storm of 1703: Archaeological Investigations 1979–2009. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology: Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 226-228.

ABSTRACT Results of laboratory analyses of samples of marble blocks found in a shipwrecked cargo at Porto Cervo demonstrate that they were almost certainly from the Apuan Alps, which implies that the ship came from the Roman city of Luna. Ceramic finds provide a date from the end of the 2nd–beginning of the 3rd century AD. There are doubts regarding the destination of the vessel, which could have been

(2021). Cayman’s 1794 Wrecks of the ‘Ten Sail’. Peace, War and Peril in the Caribbean. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology: Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 228-230.

(2021). In the Footsteps of Honor Frost: The Life and Legacy of a Pioneer in Maritime Archaeology. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology: Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 220-221.

(2021). Stories from the Wreckage: A Great Lakes Maritime History Inspired by Shipwrecks. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology: Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 233-234.

(2021). The Alliance of Pirates: Ireland and Atlantic Piracy in the Early Seventeenth Century. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology: Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 237-238.

(2021). Ghost Galleon: The Discovery and Archaeology of the San Juanillo on the Shores of Baja California. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology: Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 223-224.

(2021). Total Undersea War: The Evolutionary Role of the Snorkel in Dönitz's U-Boat Fleet, 1944–1945. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology: Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 231-233.

(2021). Famagusta Maritima: Mariners, Merchants, Pilgrims and Mercenaries. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology: Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 236-237.

(2021). Thijs Jakob Maarleveld 21 October 1953–11 March 2021. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology: Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 214-216.

(2021). A Maritime Lexicon: Arabic Nautical Terminology in the Indian Ocean. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology: Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 238-239.

(2021). War at Sea: A Shipwrecked History from Antiquity to the Cold War. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology: Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 241-242.