Institute of Maritime History

Executive Summary and Preliminary Report of a 2006 study on the effects of existing iron oxides from various iron containing structures collected from the “Puzzle Pile” wreckage site and a correlated water quality analysis located in the Lower Chesapeake Bay, at Piney Point, MD. The goal was to ascertain the presence of iron-oxidizing bacteria (FeOB) and define several aqueous environmental parameters.

This is a PowerPoint presentation on the conservation of USS Monitor given at the 2009 American Institute for Conservation (AIC) conference by Susanne Grieve, Farideh Jalilehvand, Robert Blanchette, Joel Jurgens, Todd Plaia and Dave Emerson.

Reports on the Hull Analysis and Artifact Catalog of the first maritime archaeology project by IMH in 1995 – the excavation of Annabella, a 19th-century New England coasting schooner. Annabella was built at Port Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1834, and abandoned in the Cape Neddick River in 1885.

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