Year: 2004 Language: English Author: [url=https://seatracker.ru/tracker.php?nm=Sexton R.T. ]Sexton R.T. [/url] Genre: Historical Publisher: Western Australian Museum Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages + text layer Pages count: 222 Description: In 2001 the Western Australian Museum organised an expedition to the Falkland Islands in search of Louis de Freycinet's Uranie, lost in 1820, and thence to Ascension seeking the Roebuck which under the command of William Dampier had foundered off the island precisely three hundred years before the group's visit. Following a careful analysis of primary accounts of the Roebuck's loss, the team under the leadership of Dr M. McCarthy was successful in finding, in Clarence Bay as expected, items including ceramics, the bell from a Royal Navy ship, and a large clam, possibly of the species Tridacna squamosa which is only found in the Indian and Pacific Ocean regions. From these traces it seems quite clear that the ship lies nearby under the sand. As a result oflong interest in both de Freycinet and in the structure and history of ships associated with early Australia, the writer effectively joined the Dampier/de Freycinet team later through being given the opportunity to comment on the draft reports of the expedition. A general picture of the Roebuck had been previously gleaned from a variety of sources, however it was considered essential to make a further and more detailed study of the ship even at this time, not only to assist in identification of material observed during the recent and any future fieldwork, but to help differentiate it from the vast amount of modem debris now believed likely to be present at the wrecksite. A case in point is the deadeye strap seen associated not with chains but rather, still hooked to it, the plate typical of English ships for only a century after about 1655
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Their Majesties' Ship Roebuck 1689 - 1701
Language: English
Author: [url=https://seatracker.ru/tracker.php?nm=Sexton R.T. ]Sexton R.T. [/url]
Genre: Historical
Publisher: Western Australian Museum
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages + text layer
Pages count: 222
Description: In 2001 the Western Australian Museum organised an expedition to the Falkland Islands in search of Louis de Freycinet's Uranie, lost in 1820, and thence to Ascension seeking the Roebuck which under the command of William Dampier had foundered off the island precisely three hundred years before the group's visit. Following a careful analysis of primary accounts of the Roebuck's loss, the team under the leadership of Dr M. McCarthy was successful in finding, in Clarence Bay as expected, items including ceramics, the bell from a Royal Navy ship, and a large clam, possibly of the species Tridacna squamosa which is only found in the Indian and Pacific Ocean regions. From these traces it seems quite clear that the ship lies nearby under the sand.
As a result oflong interest in both de Freycinet and in the structure and history of ships associated with early Australia, the writer effectively joined the Dampier/de Freycinet team later through being given the opportunity to comment on the draft reports of the expedition. A general picture of the Roebuck had been previously gleaned from a variety of sources, however it was considered essential to make a further and more detailed study of the ship even at this time, not only to assist in identification of material observed during the recent and any future fieldwork, but to help differentiate it from the vast amount of modem debris now believed likely to be present at the wrecksite. A case in point is the deadeye strap seen associated not with chains but rather, still hooked to it, the plate typical of English ships for only a century after about 1655
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