Annalies Corbin and Bradley A. Rodgers
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813032542
- eISBN:
- 9780813039244
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813032542.003.0001
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
The identification of the steamboat Montana in September 2002 in the Missouri River near St. Charles, Missouri, by an East Carolina University (ECU) research team unlocked a tantalizing opportunity: ...
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The identification of the steamboat Montana in September 2002 in the Missouri River near St. Charles, Missouri, by an East Carolina University (ECU) research team unlocked a tantalizing opportunity: a chance for researchers to combine history and archaeology on a known shipwreck. The Montana archaeological site provided researchers the perfect opportunity to amass a body of evidence about the construction details of western river steamers. Archaeology and history had the perfect opportunity to generate comprehensive insight into this understudied genre of historic ship architecture. Archaeologists brought to the excavation their arsenal of documenting tools and analysis while historians sought out archival information concerning the life of the Montana. Together they explored steam vessels of the nineteenth century that represented valuable capital and most often, regardless of the extent of damage, were floated and repaired in a short time. The thorough study of the Montana makes clear the lengths to which steamboat engineering evolved in order to economically compete against railroads. The study of the Montana also revealed the fatal architectural flaw that, in combination with striking the bridge abutment, destroyed the steamboat.Less
The identification of the steamboat Montana in September 2002 in the Missouri River near St. Charles, Missouri, by an East Carolina University (ECU) research team unlocked a tantalizing opportunity: a chance for researchers to combine history and archaeology on a known shipwreck. The Montana archaeological site provided researchers the perfect opportunity to amass a body of evidence about the construction details of western river steamers. Archaeology and history had the perfect opportunity to generate comprehensive insight into this understudied genre of historic ship architecture. Archaeologists brought to the excavation their arsenal of documenting tools and analysis while historians sought out archival information concerning the life of the Montana. Together they explored steam vessels of the nineteenth century that represented valuable capital and most often, regardless of the extent of damage, were floated and repaired in a short time. The thorough study of the Montana makes clear the lengths to which steamboat engineering evolved in order to economically compete against railroads. The study of the Montana also revealed the fatal architectural flaw that, in combination with striking the bridge abutment, destroyed the steamboat.
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813035406
- eISBN:
- 9780813038377
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813035406.003.0012
- Subject:
- History, World Early Modern History
This chapter focuses on the shipwreck that happened to Baltasar de Castro and others on a ship from Spain bound for Hispaniola with a cargo of mares. It states that of the seventy-nine persons on ...
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This chapter focuses on the shipwreck that happened to Baltasar de Castro and others on a ship from Spain bound for Hispaniola with a cargo of mares. It states that of the seventy-nine persons on board, forty-six were drowned and thirty-three were miraculously saved. Amador de los Ríos notes that in both the autograph manuscript and the sixteenth-century copy from which he was working, the texts of Chapters XI–XIX were missing, as well as the first part of Chapter XX. Fortunately, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés's general index to the third part has the initial chapter summaries, which at least give an idea of the missing contents. None of these summaries are dated.Less
This chapter focuses on the shipwreck that happened to Baltasar de Castro and others on a ship from Spain bound for Hispaniola with a cargo of mares. It states that of the seventy-nine persons on board, forty-six were drowned and thirty-three were miraculously saved. Amador de los Ríos notes that in both the autograph manuscript and the sixteenth-century copy from which he was working, the texts of Chapters XI–XIX were missing, as well as the first part of Chapter XX. Fortunately, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés's general index to the third part has the initial chapter summaries, which at least give an idea of the missing contents. None of these summaries are dated.
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813035406
- eISBN:
- 9780813038377
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813035406.003.0013
- Subject:
- History, World Early Modern History
This chapter describes the strange case of Juan de Lepe, subsequently a resident of Santo Domingo, on the island of Hispaniola. It relates how he was lost in Tierra Firme where a shipwreck left him ...
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This chapter describes the strange case of Juan de Lepe, subsequently a resident of Santo Domingo, on the island of Hispaniola. It relates how he was lost in Tierra Firme where a shipwreck left him among the wild Carib bowmen; and how miraculously God and his own courage rescued him from among them.Less
This chapter describes the strange case of Juan de Lepe, subsequently a resident of Santo Domingo, on the island of Hispaniola. It relates how he was lost in Tierra Firme where a shipwreck left him among the wild Carib bowmen; and how miraculously God and his own courage rescued him from among them.
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813035406
- eISBN:
- 9780813038377
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813035406.003.0017
- Subject:
- History, World Early Modern History
This chapter describes a shipwreck in which the Mother of God worked her marvels for the ship's master named Baltasar de Chaves.
This chapter describes a shipwreck in which the Mother of God worked her marvels for the ship's master named Baltasar de Chaves.
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813035406
- eISBN:
- 9780813038377
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813035406.003.0018
- Subject:
- History, World Early Modern History
This chapter describes the wreck of a ship that embarked from Santo Domingo on the island of Hispaniola on which was traveling a gentleman resident of the island of Cuba named Juan de Rojas with his ...
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This chapter describes the wreck of a ship that embarked from Santo Domingo on the island of Hispaniola on which was traveling a gentleman resident of the island of Cuba named Juan de Rojas with his wife, doña María de Lobera, whom he had married in Santo Domingo a few days earlier. He was taking her to his home in the town of La Havana, on the island which is also known as Fernandina.Less
This chapter describes the wreck of a ship that embarked from Santo Domingo on the island of Hispaniola on which was traveling a gentleman resident of the island of Cuba named Juan de Rojas with his wife, doña María de Lobera, whom he had married in Santo Domingo a few days earlier. He was taking her to his home in the town of La Havana, on the island which is also known as Fernandina.
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813035406
- eISBN:
- 9780813038377
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813035406.003.0024
- Subject:
- History, World Early Modern History
This chapter describes the shipwreck and very perilous journey that happened to the people of Governor Hierónimo Dortal. While he was going to the banks of the great and famous Huyapari River, ...
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This chapter describes the shipwreck and very perilous journey that happened to the people of Governor Hierónimo Dortal. While he was going to the banks of the great and famous Huyapari River, Governor Dortal sent some people and ships under Captain Alonso de Herrera to settle at a town called Aruacay. However, there they found the town abandoned, and the captain and the Spaniards crossed to the other bank of the same river to a town called Capao. From there they sent the governor some gold and Indians and great news of the riches said to be had in Meta, urging him to hurry to join with them so they could go forward with the enterprise. It took them twenty days to sail a good 250 leagues to the mouth of the estuary.Less
This chapter describes the shipwreck and very perilous journey that happened to the people of Governor Hierónimo Dortal. While he was going to the banks of the great and famous Huyapari River, Governor Dortal sent some people and ships under Captain Alonso de Herrera to settle at a town called Aruacay. However, there they found the town abandoned, and the captain and the Spaniards crossed to the other bank of the same river to a town called Capao. From there they sent the governor some gold and Indians and great news of the riches said to be had in Meta, urging him to hurry to join with them so they could go forward with the enterprise. It took them twenty days to sail a good 250 leagues to the mouth of the estuary.
Andrew Wilson
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199562596
- eISBN:
- 9780191721458
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199562596.003.0009
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, European History: BCE to 500CE
This chapter reviews some possible ways to quantify trade in the Roman period, and their inherent methodological and evidential problems. While it is easy to demonstrate the existence of trade, ...
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This chapter reviews some possible ways to quantify trade in the Roman period, and their inherent methodological and evidential problems. While it is easy to demonstrate the existence of trade, especially long-distance trade, quantification is much more difficult, given the ways in which the archaeological record acts to filter what originally existed. The chapter looks at possible ways of identifying short-distance trade, and examines several case studies of longer distance trade. These include different interpretations of A. J. Parker's graphs of shipwrecks over time, and ways of analyzing an expanded wreck dataset in greater detail; the use of amphorae as a marker for trade; and the production and trade of salted fish, measured by production capacity of salting factories. Finally, it examines the approach of E. Fentress et al. to measuring trade in African Red-slip ware, and discusses the potential for applying this methodology to other classes of pottery.Less
This chapter reviews some possible ways to quantify trade in the Roman period, and their inherent methodological and evidential problems. While it is easy to demonstrate the existence of trade, especially long-distance trade, quantification is much more difficult, given the ways in which the archaeological record acts to filter what originally existed. The chapter looks at possible ways of identifying short-distance trade, and examines several case studies of longer distance trade. These include different interpretations of A. J. Parker's graphs of shipwrecks over time, and ways of analyzing an expanded wreck dataset in greater detail; the use of amphorae as a marker for trade; and the production and trade of salted fish, measured by production capacity of salting factories. Finally, it examines the approach of E. Fentress et al. to measuring trade in African Red-slip ware, and discusses the potential for applying this methodology to other classes of pottery.
Roger C. Smith (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780813056760
- eISBN:
- 9780813053523
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813056760.001.0001
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
Florida’s Lost Galleon tells the story of the Emanuel Point Shipwreck, recounting its discovery and our subsequent archival and archaeological investigations, analysis of recovered materials, and ...
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Florida’s Lost Galleon tells the story of the Emanuel Point Shipwreck, recounting its discovery and our subsequent archival and archaeological investigations, analysis of recovered materials, and interpretation of its role in the 1559 fleet of Tristán de Luna. The excavation of this shipwreck, the earliest to be found in Florida, has opened a forgotten chapter in American history. Although two interim reports, numerous academic and popular articles, and several master’s theses have resulted from work conducted on the Pensacola Bay site, this book provides a timely and comprehensive accounting of shipwreck research that is written and presented with general readers and scholars in mind. Less
Florida’s Lost Galleon tells the story of the Emanuel Point Shipwreck, recounting its discovery and our subsequent archival and archaeological investigations, analysis of recovered materials, and interpretation of its role in the 1559 fleet of Tristán de Luna. The excavation of this shipwreck, the earliest to be found in Florida, has opened a forgotten chapter in American history. Although two interim reports, numerous academic and popular articles, and several master’s theses have resulted from work conducted on the Pensacola Bay site, this book provides a timely and comprehensive accounting of shipwreck research that is written and presented with general readers and scholars in mind.
Carl Thompson
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199259984
- eISBN:
- 9780191717413
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199259984.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
This chapter explores some of the ways in which a hugely popular literature of shipwreck and maritime disaster played an important ‘scripting’ influence on Romantic travel. It explores firstly the ...
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This chapter explores some of the ways in which a hugely popular literature of shipwreck and maritime disaster played an important ‘scripting’ influence on Romantic travel. It explores firstly the religious traditions and conventions strongly associated with this material (and accordingly, with the figure of the suffering mariner or maritime misadventurer), emphasizing in this regard the routine Providentialism of many of these accounts, and their connection with traditions of spiritual autobiography. The chapter goes on to suggest, however, that these associations between maritime suffering and spiritual revelation become complicated by the rise of more rationalistic and empiricist modes of travel writing in the 18th century. It is in part this tension that makes the figure of maritime misadventurer so fascinating to the Romantic imagination, a fascination that is explored in relation to Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Byron's emulation of the Mariner in his own travelling.Less
This chapter explores some of the ways in which a hugely popular literature of shipwreck and maritime disaster played an important ‘scripting’ influence on Romantic travel. It explores firstly the religious traditions and conventions strongly associated with this material (and accordingly, with the figure of the suffering mariner or maritime misadventurer), emphasizing in this regard the routine Providentialism of many of these accounts, and their connection with traditions of spiritual autobiography. The chapter goes on to suggest, however, that these associations between maritime suffering and spiritual revelation become complicated by the rise of more rationalistic and empiricist modes of travel writing in the 18th century. It is in part this tension that makes the figure of maritime misadventurer so fascinating to the Romantic imagination, a fascination that is explored in relation to Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Byron's emulation of the Mariner in his own travelling.
Carl Thompson
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199259984
- eISBN:
- 9780191717413
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199259984.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
The chapter explores the political resonance of the figure of the maritime misadventurer, and by extension the political symbolism that could attach to the Romantic espousal of misadventure in travel ...
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The chapter explores the political resonance of the figure of the maritime misadventurer, and by extension the political symbolism that could attach to the Romantic espousal of misadventure in travel and travel writing. The voyage and shipwreck literature introduced in Chapter 2 did not just bring into focus important existential questions in the Romantic era; it also returned repeatedly to issues of authority, insubordination, and mutiny which were especially resonant in the era of the French Revolution. The first section of the chapter explores these themes directly, whilst the second considers how they are reflected in the maritime imagery of two early works by Wordsworth: Salisbury Plain and The Borderers. The final section explores instances in which an identification with the sufferings of sailors led to a politically-motivated espousal of misadventure on the part of Romantic travellers (focusing on the Romantic practice of pedestrianism).Less
The chapter explores the political resonance of the figure of the maritime misadventurer, and by extension the political symbolism that could attach to the Romantic espousal of misadventure in travel and travel writing. The voyage and shipwreck literature introduced in Chapter 2 did not just bring into focus important existential questions in the Romantic era; it also returned repeatedly to issues of authority, insubordination, and mutiny which were especially resonant in the era of the French Revolution. The first section of the chapter explores these themes directly, whilst the second considers how they are reflected in the maritime imagery of two early works by Wordsworth: Salisbury Plain and The Borderers. The final section explores instances in which an identification with the sufferings of sailors led to a politically-motivated espousal of misadventure on the part of Romantic travellers (focusing on the Romantic practice of pedestrianism).
Carl Thompson
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199259984
- eISBN:
- 9780191717413
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199259984.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
This chapter explores Wordsworth's indebtedness both to the literature of shipwreck and maritime misadventure outlined in Chapters 2 and 3, and to the literature of exploration outlined in Chapter 5. ...
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This chapter explores Wordsworth's indebtedness both to the literature of shipwreck and maritime misadventure outlined in Chapters 2 and 3, and to the literature of exploration outlined in Chapter 5. From this material, and especially from the traditions of spiritual autobiography and Providentialism in this material, it is suggested that Wordsworth absorbed deeply a sense of travel as properly a form of quasi-religious pilgrimage, and of misadventure as a route to spiritual discovery and renovation. The first section of the chapter discusses Wordsworthian misadventure in relation to Wordsworth's spiritual and creative anxieties and aspirations; this section focuses chiefly on The Prelude. The second section explores the public dimension to Wordsworth's adoption of the misadventurer, focusing on the ways in which Wordsworth harnesses misadventure to a nationalist and imperialist ethos: The Excursion is the principal text discussed here.Less
This chapter explores Wordsworth's indebtedness both to the literature of shipwreck and maritime misadventure outlined in Chapters 2 and 3, and to the literature of exploration outlined in Chapter 5. From this material, and especially from the traditions of spiritual autobiography and Providentialism in this material, it is suggested that Wordsworth absorbed deeply a sense of travel as properly a form of quasi-religious pilgrimage, and of misadventure as a route to spiritual discovery and renovation. The first section of the chapter discusses Wordsworthian misadventure in relation to Wordsworth's spiritual and creative anxieties and aspirations; this section focuses chiefly on The Prelude. The second section explores the public dimension to Wordsworth's adoption of the misadventurer, focusing on the ways in which Wordsworth harnesses misadventure to a nationalist and imperialist ethos: The Excursion is the principal text discussed here.
Carl Thompson
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199259984
- eISBN:
- 9780191717413
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199259984.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
This chapter explores Byron's indebtedness both to the literature of shipwreck and maritime misadventure outlined in Chapters 2 and 3, and to the literature of exploration outlined in Chapter 5. It ...
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This chapter explores Byron's indebtedness both to the literature of shipwreck and maritime misadventure outlined in Chapters 2 and 3, and to the literature of exploration outlined in Chapter 5. It shows how Byron offered a significantly different inflection of the misadventurer persona to that fashioned by Wordsworth. A discussion of the persona fashioned in Childe Harold suggests that for Byron, misadventure was valued in sensationalist terms, as a broadening of experience, rather than as a route to spiritual revelation. The corollary to this was a Byronic scepticism as to the Providentialist assumptions and conventions often apparent in Wordsworth's scripting of travel and misadventure. This scepticism is apparent in Byron's notorious rendering of a shipwreck in Don Juan, which is the subject of the second section of the chapter. The final section explores the politically transgressive aspects of Byron's stance as misadventurer.Less
This chapter explores Byron's indebtedness both to the literature of shipwreck and maritime misadventure outlined in Chapters 2 and 3, and to the literature of exploration outlined in Chapter 5. It shows how Byron offered a significantly different inflection of the misadventurer persona to that fashioned by Wordsworth. A discussion of the persona fashioned in Childe Harold suggests that for Byron, misadventure was valued in sensationalist terms, as a broadening of experience, rather than as a route to spiritual revelation. The corollary to this was a Byronic scepticism as to the Providentialist assumptions and conventions often apparent in Wordsworth's scripting of travel and misadventure. This scepticism is apparent in Byron's notorious rendering of a shipwreck in Don Juan, which is the subject of the second section of the chapter. The final section explores the politically transgressive aspects of Byron's stance as misadventurer.
Matthew Rubery
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195369267
- eISBN:
- 9780199871148
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195369267.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
Nowhere is the borrowing from newspapers by novelists so clear as in the case of shipwrecks, the most frequently reported disaster in the Victorian press. This chapter shows that novelists used this ...
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Nowhere is the borrowing from newspapers by novelists so clear as in the case of shipwrecks, the most frequently reported disaster in the Victorian press. This chapter shows that novelists used this wildly popular feature drawn from the pages of Lloyd's List to highlight the impact news could have on domestic life. Although the shipping news has often been regarded as an exclusively male interest of sailors, merchants, and investors, this section of the newspaper was read with equal fervor by domestic women separated by the sea from loved ones. We know this through a remarkable sequence of parallel scenes across the 19th-century novel in which the revelation of private love takes place at the moment when the newspaper ensures that the heroine's admiration will be shared by all of England. Novelists as different as Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, and Charlotte Yonge all recognized the counterintuitive way in which public media enabled the expression of private feeling, a response strikingly evident on dramatic occasions such as the loss of a ship at sea. Such scenes vividly illustrate a new approach to understanding catastrophe in Victorian fiction.Less
Nowhere is the borrowing from newspapers by novelists so clear as in the case of shipwrecks, the most frequently reported disaster in the Victorian press. This chapter shows that novelists used this wildly popular feature drawn from the pages of Lloyd's List to highlight the impact news could have on domestic life. Although the shipping news has often been regarded as an exclusively male interest of sailors, merchants, and investors, this section of the newspaper was read with equal fervor by domestic women separated by the sea from loved ones. We know this through a remarkable sequence of parallel scenes across the 19th-century novel in which the revelation of private love takes place at the moment when the newspaper ensures that the heroine's admiration will be shared by all of England. Novelists as different as Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, and Charlotte Yonge all recognized the counterintuitive way in which public media enabled the expression of private feeling, a response strikingly evident on dramatic occasions such as the loss of a ship at sea. Such scenes vividly illustrate a new approach to understanding catastrophe in Victorian fiction.
Steven R. Schwankert
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9789888208180
- eISBN:
- 9789888268429
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888208180.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
Royal Navy submarine HMS Poseidon sank in collision with a freighter during routine exercises in 1931 off the Chinese coast. Thirty of its fifty-six-man crew scrambled out of the hatches as it went ...
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Royal Navy submarine HMS Poseidon sank in collision with a freighter during routine exercises in 1931 off the Chinese coast. Thirty of its fifty-six-man crew scrambled out of the hatches as it went down. Of the twenty-six who remained inside, eight attempted to surface using an early form of diving equipment: five of them made it safely to the surface in the first escape of this kind in submarine history and became heroes. The incident was then forgotten, eclipsed by the greater drama that followed in World War II, until news emerged that, for obscure reasons, the Chinese government had salvaged the wrecked submarine in 1972. This lively account of the Poseidon incident tells the story of the accident and its aftermath, and of the author’s own quest to discover the shipwreck and its hidden history.Less
Royal Navy submarine HMS Poseidon sank in collision with a freighter during routine exercises in 1931 off the Chinese coast. Thirty of its fifty-six-man crew scrambled out of the hatches as it went down. Of the twenty-six who remained inside, eight attempted to surface using an early form of diving equipment: five of them made it safely to the surface in the first escape of this kind in submarine history and became heroes. The incident was then forgotten, eclipsed by the greater drama that followed in World War II, until news emerged that, for obscure reasons, the Chinese government had salvaged the wrecked submarine in 1972. This lively account of the Poseidon incident tells the story of the accident and its aftermath, and of the author’s own quest to discover the shipwreck and its hidden history.
Gregory D. Cook, John R. Bratten, and John E. Worth
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780813056760
- eISBN:
- 9780813053523
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813056760.003.0009
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
The Emanuel Point Shipwreck helped to persuade the University of West Florida to begin a program of maritime archaeology. Those students ultimately continued the survey of Pensacola Bay, finding ...
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The Emanuel Point Shipwreck helped to persuade the University of West Florida to begin a program of maritime archaeology. Those students ultimately continued the survey of Pensacola Bay, finding another Luna shipwreck near the first one and then, recently, a third sister ship in the fleet. Above the shipwrecks on the Emanuel Point Bluff, remnants of the settlement site have also been found, creating an unparalleled opportunity to study the maritime and terrestrial components of that forgotten chapter and bring its remains to light.Less
The Emanuel Point Shipwreck helped to persuade the University of West Florida to begin a program of maritime archaeology. Those students ultimately continued the survey of Pensacola Bay, finding another Luna shipwreck near the first one and then, recently, a third sister ship in the fleet. Above the shipwrecks on the Emanuel Point Bluff, remnants of the settlement site have also been found, creating an unparalleled opportunity to study the maritime and terrestrial components of that forgotten chapter and bring its remains to light.
Charles R. Ewen and Russell K. Skowronek (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813061580
- eISBN:
- 9780813051246
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813061580.001.0001
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
Pieces of Eight: More Archaeology of Piracy concerns what it is that distinguishes the pirate in the archaeological record. It is not so much a history as it is an anthropology of piracy. It is the ...
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Pieces of Eight: More Archaeology of Piracy concerns what it is that distinguishes the pirate in the archaeological record. It is not so much a history as it is an anthropology of piracy. It is the study of piracy from its material culture and linking those artifacts to past behaviors. The cases in this book depict archaeologists pouring over the material evidence to answer questions about the nature of pirate ships and the pirate who sailed them. Some shipwreck sites discussed in a previous book, X Marks the Spot, were revisited in this volume. There were new discoveries added as well. As the data from positively identified pirate sites accumulates, the authors have been able to delve more deeply into what it means to be a pirate. The book also examines the idiosyncrasies of pirate life in both fact and fiction and attempts to find some commonalities among all pirates. They also show that we have much to learn about the lives of pirates.Less
Pieces of Eight: More Archaeology of Piracy concerns what it is that distinguishes the pirate in the archaeological record. It is not so much a history as it is an anthropology of piracy. It is the study of piracy from its material culture and linking those artifacts to past behaviors. The cases in this book depict archaeologists pouring over the material evidence to answer questions about the nature of pirate ships and the pirate who sailed them. Some shipwreck sites discussed in a previous book, X Marks the Spot, were revisited in this volume. There were new discoveries added as well. As the data from positively identified pirate sites accumulates, the authors have been able to delve more deeply into what it means to be a pirate. The book also examines the idiosyncrasies of pirate life in both fact and fiction and attempts to find some commonalities among all pirates. They also show that we have much to learn about the lives of pirates.
Jun Kimura
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780813061184
- eISBN:
- 9780813051161
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813061184.001.0001
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
This book clarifies the dynamics of shipbuilding traditions evolved in East Asia, explained based on the detailed investigations of excavated ships in the region. The previous shipwreck study in East ...
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This book clarifies the dynamics of shipbuilding traditions evolved in East Asia, explained based on the detailed investigations of excavated ships in the region. The previous shipwreck study in East Asia regarding past seafaring, human migration, and material-culture transportation was highly focused on wreck cargo. The hull remains of individual shipwrecks have been only solely reported. This is the first comprehensive study of the early and medieval East Asian ships in the field from the viewpoint of nautical and maritime archaeological perspectives. It incorporates the archaeological examination of the hull structure and construction methods into an interpretation of the chronological development of shipbuilding technologies. Understanding the technological innovation is critique to the role of the ships that played in water transportation, maritime trade, and naval conflict in East Asian history. The author presents an extensive dataset of excavated coastal and oceangoing ships dating from the 1th century to the medieval periods excavated in China, Korea, and Japan. Three case studies of the 13th–14th century ship remains from China, Korea, and Japan are presented to identify technological innovations that occurred in shipbuilding industries along the middle and southern coast of China. Identifying such phenomenon leads to understanding three major spheres of shipbuilding traditions in the areas of the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea.Less
This book clarifies the dynamics of shipbuilding traditions evolved in East Asia, explained based on the detailed investigations of excavated ships in the region. The previous shipwreck study in East Asia regarding past seafaring, human migration, and material-culture transportation was highly focused on wreck cargo. The hull remains of individual shipwrecks have been only solely reported. This is the first comprehensive study of the early and medieval East Asian ships in the field from the viewpoint of nautical and maritime archaeological perspectives. It incorporates the archaeological examination of the hull structure and construction methods into an interpretation of the chronological development of shipbuilding technologies. Understanding the technological innovation is critique to the role of the ships that played in water transportation, maritime trade, and naval conflict in East Asian history. The author presents an extensive dataset of excavated coastal and oceangoing ships dating from the 1th century to the medieval periods excavated in China, Korea, and Japan. Three case studies of the 13th–14th century ship remains from China, Korea, and Japan are presented to identify technological innovations that occurred in shipbuilding industries along the middle and southern coast of China. Identifying such phenomenon leads to understanding three major spheres of shipbuilding traditions in the areas of the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea.
Carina E Ray and Jeremy Rich (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780986497315
- eISBN:
- 9781786944535
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780986497315.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Maritime History
This book is a collection of essays addressing multiple aspects of African maritime history in attempt to counter the lack of academic research that exists in comparison to other nations and ...
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This book is a collection of essays addressing multiple aspects of African maritime history in attempt to counter the lack of academic research that exists in comparison to other nations and continents, and to assert the value of African topics to the global study of maritime history. Each essay addresses African maritime history whilst also demonstrating an inextricable link to the global maritime stage. The topics discussed include early human migration to Africa; early European contact with Africa; the role of West African maritime communities in the Atlantic slave trade; New World slaveholders and the exploitation of African maritime skillsets; the construction of Atlantic world racial discourses; the rise and fall of colonial rule; and African immigrant communities in Europe. These essays cover maritime topics such as seafaring labour, navigational technology, swimming, diving, surfing; plus political subjects that include colonisation, decolonisation, immigration and citizenship. The book consists of eight essays and an introduction that evaluates the existing research into African maritime history. It includes case studies from every major geographical part of the continent, bar North Africa, and covers the Early Modern period up to the twentieth century. The purpose is not to provide a comprehensive chronological history, but rather a diverse collection of topics across a range of periods and locations to reflect the wealth of maritime topics in the history of Africa and their global significance. It concludes with a call for further research into non-European maritime activity, to deepen the global historiography.Less
This book is a collection of essays addressing multiple aspects of African maritime history in attempt to counter the lack of academic research that exists in comparison to other nations and continents, and to assert the value of African topics to the global study of maritime history. Each essay addresses African maritime history whilst also demonstrating an inextricable link to the global maritime stage. The topics discussed include early human migration to Africa; early European contact with Africa; the role of West African maritime communities in the Atlantic slave trade; New World slaveholders and the exploitation of African maritime skillsets; the construction of Atlantic world racial discourses; the rise and fall of colonial rule; and African immigrant communities in Europe. These essays cover maritime topics such as seafaring labour, navigational technology, swimming, diving, surfing; plus political subjects that include colonisation, decolonisation, immigration and citizenship. The book consists of eight essays and an introduction that evaluates the existing research into African maritime history. It includes case studies from every major geographical part of the continent, bar North Africa, and covers the Early Modern period up to the twentieth century. The purpose is not to provide a comprehensive chronological history, but rather a diverse collection of topics across a range of periods and locations to reflect the wealth of maritime topics in the history of Africa and their global significance. It concludes with a call for further research into non-European maritime activity, to deepen the global historiography.
Bangyan Feng Mee Kau Nyaw and Mee Kau Nyaw
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789888028702
- eISBN:
- 9789882206946
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888028702.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
Insurance is one of Hong Kong's oldest industries. In the nineteenth century, the lucrative trade between China and Europe carried many risks—piracy, warfare, fire, loss of goods, and other mishaps. ...
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Insurance is one of Hong Kong's oldest industries. In the nineteenth century, the lucrative trade between China and Europe carried many risks—piracy, warfare, fire, loss of goods, and other mishaps. Dozens of different insurance firms—some home-grown, others imported—established themselves in the colony to protect ships and their cargoes. With the diversification of Hong Kong's economy into manufacturing and services, Hong Kong became a global center of insurance, and the industry continues to transform itself today through changing practices and new lines of business. This is the first history of Hong Kong's insurance industry, and it argues its central importance in the economy. Typhoons, shipwrecks, fires, wars, political turbulence, and unexpected events of all kinds provide a dramatic background to this survey, which is illustrated with photographs and documents.Less
Insurance is one of Hong Kong's oldest industries. In the nineteenth century, the lucrative trade between China and Europe carried many risks—piracy, warfare, fire, loss of goods, and other mishaps. Dozens of different insurance firms—some home-grown, others imported—established themselves in the colony to protect ships and their cargoes. With the diversification of Hong Kong's economy into manufacturing and services, Hong Kong became a global center of insurance, and the industry continues to transform itself today through changing practices and new lines of business. This is the first history of Hong Kong's insurance industry, and it argues its central importance in the economy. Typhoons, shipwrecks, fires, wars, political turbulence, and unexpected events of all kinds provide a dramatic background to this survey, which is illustrated with photographs and documents.
Steve Mentz
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816691036
- eISBN:
- 9781452953571
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816691036.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Shipwreck sinks human ambitions into the global ocean. In the wet chaos of disaster, sailors and writers seek temporary stability amid dynamic change. The vast archive of early modern representations ...
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Shipwreck sinks human ambitions into the global ocean. In the wet chaos of disaster, sailors and writers seek temporary stability amid dynamic change. The vast archive of early modern representations of maritime disaster use this classical topos to model the felt experience of radical cultural change during an era of transoceanic expansion. As English sailors put girdles round about the globe, they encountered and caused ecological disasters. The ancient masterplot of shipwreck provided them with a literary language for their dislocation and uncertainty. The global ecology these representations describe is an oceanic world of disaster, struggle, and--sometimes--survival. Three central paradigms--“wet globalization,” “blue ecology,” and “shipwreck modernity”--describe the cultural meanings of shipwreck stories in historical and imaginative texts from the mid-sixteenth through the early eighteenth centuries. The decades during which the English nation and its emerging colonies began to define themselves through oceangoing expansion were also decades in which maritime disaster occupied sailors, poets, playwrights, sermon-makers, and other thinkers. The global ecology of shipwreck transforms catastrophes into partial accommodations with disruptive change. In the end it may not be possible to dry out wet disasters, but efforts to represent them lay open a picture of the human encounter with ecological disaster on a global scale.Less
Shipwreck sinks human ambitions into the global ocean. In the wet chaos of disaster, sailors and writers seek temporary stability amid dynamic change. The vast archive of early modern representations of maritime disaster use this classical topos to model the felt experience of radical cultural change during an era of transoceanic expansion. As English sailors put girdles round about the globe, they encountered and caused ecological disasters. The ancient masterplot of shipwreck provided them with a literary language for their dislocation and uncertainty. The global ecology these representations describe is an oceanic world of disaster, struggle, and--sometimes--survival. Three central paradigms--“wet globalization,” “blue ecology,” and “shipwreck modernity”--describe the cultural meanings of shipwreck stories in historical and imaginative texts from the mid-sixteenth through the early eighteenth centuries. The decades during which the English nation and its emerging colonies began to define themselves through oceangoing expansion were also decades in which maritime disaster occupied sailors, poets, playwrights, sermon-makers, and other thinkers. The global ecology of shipwreck transforms catastrophes into partial accommodations with disruptive change. In the end it may not be possible to dry out wet disasters, but efforts to represent them lay open a picture of the human encounter with ecological disaster on a global scale.
