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Journal article
Two wrecks in a historic careenage: The case for identification of the Deadman’s Island and Town Point shipwrecks in Pensacola Bay, Florida
International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, Vol.50(1), pp.154-164
2021
Web of Science ID: WOS:000681251600001
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 Gulf Breeze, Florida. Contemporary documents, both reanalysed and rediscovered, may prove the Deadman’s Island Wreck to be HMS Florida, the last survey schooner of Royal Surveyor and Cartographer George Gauld, and the Town Point Wreck Florida’s attendant shallop.
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- Title
- Two wrecks in a historic careenage
- Publication Details
- International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, Vol.50(1), pp.154-164
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Inc.; United Kingdom
- Copyright
- 2021 Informa UK limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
- Identifiers
- WOS:000681251600001; 99380090762806600
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology; College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities
- Language
- English