http://www.maritimehistory.org/blog/ The latest news and notes from the field from the Institute of Maritime History. en-us 2006-08-04T19:58:12+00:00 http://www.maritimehistory.org/blog/archives/2006/08/achill_island_f_15.html Our final team member has arrived. Dr. Sam Turner is the Director of Archaeology for LAMP (Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program) and also the President of IMH (Institute for Maritime History), two of the institutions sponsoring this research project. He flew... Achill Island chuck 2006-08-04T19:58:12+00:00 http://www.maritimehistory.org/blog/archives/2006/07/field_summary_r.html IMH made a reconnaissance of the historic harbor area at New Castle, Delaware, on 16-22 July 2006 for the Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs. See the summary: Download the PDF file... SHIP david 2006-07-26T16:04:57+00:00 http://www.maritimehistory.org/blog/archives/2006/07/achill_island_f_14.html The Norwegian sailing bark Jenny was lost at Achill Beg Island on route to Hamburg, Germany from Morant Bay, Jamaica, on 13 January 1894. She had a cargo of logwood and a crew of ten men, all of whom survived... Achill Island chuck 2006-07-25T11:45:14+00:00 http://www.maritimehistory.org/blog/archives/2006/07/achill_island_f_13.html The forecast is calling for heavy seas for this week, precluding any diving, so over the next few days we are working on several alternative tasks. One ongoing objective is to continue recording the curragh pens at Dooagh pier. We... Achill Island chuck 2006-07-25T11:25:44+00:00 http://www.maritimehistory.org/blog/archives/2006/07/achill_island_f_12.html Another crewmember has arrived on the 9th of July. Norine Carroll is a volunteer who I have worked with on a number of shipwreck projects since 1997. She currently works in the Smithsonian in Washington D.C., and has agreed to... Achill Island chuck 2006-07-25T11:11:20+00:00 http://www.maritimehistory.org/blog/archives/2006/07/achill_island_f_11.html As in other colonial settings, indigenous and vernacular watercraft, notably the skin-clad curragh and wooden-planked yawl, played a central role in long-standing maritime lifeways and practices on Achill. Curraghs are the famed skin or canvas boats used for centuries along... Achill Island chuck 2006-07-25T10:39:02+00:00 http://www.maritimehistory.org/blog/archives/2006/07/achill_island_f_10.html Last year we discovered that an anchor had been raised from the seafloor around Saddle Head by some Achill fishermen in the late 1960s. We successfully tracked it down and got a look at it, but didn’t have time to... Achill Island chuck 2006-07-13T15:59:43+00:00 http://www.maritimehistory.org/blog/archives/2006/07/achill_island_f_9.html Last year we spend a significant amount of time recording the wreckage of the Successful, a late 19th/early 20th century fishing trawler (see Field Report 4). It is a very complex shipwreck, and we were unable to fully document it... Achill Island chuck 2006-07-13T15:36:30+00:00 http://www.maritimehistory.org/blog/archives/2006/07/achill_island_f_8.html On the 28th I’m driving to Westport to pick up Kevin Cullen, an archaeology graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is Irish-born, but emigrated to America when he was young, and it has been eight years since he’s... Achill Island chuck 2006-07-13T15:24:34+00:00 http://www.maritimehistory.org/blog/archives/2006/07/achill_island_f_7.html A few days ago, my landlady Sheila McNamara brought to my attention an announcement in the Mayo News about a free archaeological tour of Clare Island being hosted by the Clew Bay Archaeological Trail (www.clewbaytrail.com). This trail, which encompasses 21... Achill Island chuck 2006-07-13T14:47:27+00:00 http://www.maritimehistory.org/blog/archives/2006/07/achill_island_f_6.html After another low tide recording the Successful wreck at Achill Sound, I am looking forward to participating in a traditional Irish event, St. John’s Eve, also known as Bonfire Night. School kids and adults alike can’t hide their excitement over... Achill Island chuck 2006-07-13T14:42:57+00:00 http://www.maritimehistory.org/blog/archives/2006/07/test.html Fishermen Interviews by East Carolina University Graduate Reveal Locations of Prehistoric Artifacts and Shipwrecks In June 2006, Franklin Price (M.A.) of Bernard, Maine, and recent graduate of East Carolina University, received a grant from IMH and the Fund for the... Submerged Prehistory david 2006-07-10T08:08:48+00:00 http://www.maritimehistory.org/blog/archives/2006/07/achill_island_f_5.html Today I have joined the Achill Archaeological Field School students for their weekly field trip, lead by Field Director Simon O Faolain and Managing Director and Field School founder Theresa McDonald. The students will be traveling to Corraun to see... Achill Island chuck 2006-07-04T12:23:40+00:00 http://www.maritimehistory.org/blog/archives/2006/07/achill_island_f_4.html We’ve had a few days of bad weather, and so haven’t gotten much work done. It has made for some interesting sights, though. Here the mist creeps over the crest of the mountain and threatens to engulf a holiday home... Achill Island chuck 2006-07-04T11:56:22+00:00 http://www.maritimehistory.org/blog/archives/2006/07/achill_island_f_3.html Today’s plan is to visit the wreck of an old fishing trawler named the Successful. This vessel may have been originally built as early as the late nineteenth century, though it certainly operated through the first decades of the twentieth... Achill Island chuck 2006-07-04T11:26:31+00:00