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Timbers in the water tank. Image: Irini Malliaros/Silentworld for Sydney Metro, used with permission.

CONSERVING A WRECK.

BARANGAROO BOAT

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THE END OF THE ENDEAVOUR?

IN SEARCH OF CAPTAIN COOK'S SHIP: NEWPORT, RI

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THE ORIGINAL SOUTH AUSTRALIAN

SEARCHING FOR THE STATE'S OLDEST WRECK

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SEARCHING FOR AE1.

AUSTRALIA'S FIRST SUBMARINE

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DISCOVERY: 4 NEW WRECKS.

KENN REEFS : CORAL SEA

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Not-for-profit organisation supporting and promoting #maritimearchaeology in Australasia and Melanesia. Currently working on the #BarangarooBoat

Peekaboo, this #FindsFriday! Anyone else excited t

Peekaboo, this #FindsFriday! Anyone else excited to #dive into the weekend? 🤿 ⚓🤣

These #anchors were spotted during the #BootReef expedition in 2018. As there was no anchorage at Boot Reef, we anchored at nearby #AshmoreReef instead. The team revisited the anchors from the wreck of the #Comet to test their equipment before venturing to complete their fieldwork at Boot Reef.

📸: @seajewlz /Silentworld Foundation.

This project is undertaken in partnership with @sea.museum.

#Shipwrecks #Archaeology #ArchaeologyFieldwork #Anchor #Diving #Wreck #Coral #Artefacts #Sitework #ArchaeologyLovers #HistoryNerd #InstaHeritage #Artefacts #Reef #DivingLife #MaritimeHistory #MaritimePhotography #MaritimeArchaeology #OzArch #InstaArchaeology #Sea #Ocean #ArchaeologyLife #UnderwaterPhotography @kieranhosty @rae.malliaros

🌹Roses are red, 💙violets are blue, and her

🌹Roses are red,
💙violets are blue,
and here's a small convict love token
for you 😍

Love token produced by a young man, William Bailey, for his parents at the time of his sentencing to transportation. The token was made from a cartwheel penny and is inscribed on the obverse: “Mother and Father. When this you see think of me till I get my liberty. Wm Bailey July 3 1822” (His date of birth).

Silentworld Collection SF000042.

#valentines #love #lovetoken #artefact #convict #convictlovetokens

#FindsFriday throwback to that time the team spott

#FindsFriday throwback to that time the team spotted some unusual plumbing at Kenn Reefs 🧐🚽⛵.

Divers found an unusual copper-alloy artefact, located close to the reef crest, lying atop a reef spur. But what was this artefact?

The size and appearance strongly suggested artefact was actually the valve and valve-box assembly from ‘Bramah’s Valve-Closet’, an early variant of flushing toilet first developed during the late eighteenth century. The copper-alloy flange formed the opening at the base of the toilet basin through which waste was removed into the valve box, which in turn fed into an attached downpipe.

Production of Bramah’s Valve-Closet continued well into the nineteenth century, and the type proved particularly popular for use aboard watercraft. However, shipboard flushing toilets were still largely uncommon by the 1850s, and usually only installed on vessels that carried large numbers of passengers, such as immigrant or convict ships.

The team concluded that the site was that of Rodney, given the dating of the toilet, along with other anchors at the site, and a related historical account of the wrecking. Rodney had previously been used as a convict transport.

1 - 📸: @seajewlz /Silentworld Foundation, 2017.
2 - Diagram of Bramah’s Valve-Closet. The faint white outline indicates the in situ arrangement of the flange observed at the site. Image adapted by: Dr James Hunter.

This project was undertaken in partnership with @sea.museum.

#Shipwrecks #Archaeology #ArchaeologyFieldwork #Diving #Wreck #Artefacts #Sitework #ArchaeologyLovers #HistoryNerd #InstaHeritage #Anchor #Reef #DivingLife #MaritimeHistory #MaritimePhotography #MaritimeArchaeology #OzArch #InstaArchaeology #Sea #Ocean #ArchaeologyLife #UnderwaterPhotography #FlashbackFriday #Artifact #Anchor #igarchaeology

#MondayMotivation from Bruegel: Add some ship mode

#MondayMotivation from Bruegel: Add some ship models, charts and globes to give your home office that nautical touch.

At what point in his life Bruegel became interested in the subject of ships is unclear, but the deep fascination the citizens of Antwerp took in it is understandable given the nature of the city's economy. As a mercantile superpower with direct access to the North Sea, and as home to some of the most ambitious traders and explorers in Europe, Antwerp took great pride in the prowess and engineering of their ships and in their connection to the sea. Whatever the precise source of their appeal, Bruegel's series of Sailing Vessels was a highly sophisticated creation that far surpassed previous examples of the genre in technique and imagination.

The Antwerp publisher Hieronymus Cock probably commissioned Pieter Brueghel the Elder to make a number of ship portraits around 1561-1562 to serve as models for the engraver Frans Huys.

Silentworld Collection SF001134. From a set of 14 sixteenth-century Breugel sailing ship prints. This engraving belongs to a series of prints known as the Sailing Vessels, executed by Frans Huys after designs by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The series displays a wide range of sailing vessels, including merchantmen and warships, large seagoing vessels and small coasters, galleys, and caravels.

#MuseumObject #ObjectOfTheWeek #Bruegel #Print #HomeOffice #WorkFromHome #WorkFromHomeLIfe

Happy #FindsFriday! In 2009 our expedition team #

Happy #FindsFriday!

In 2009 our expedition team #spotted this pulley wheel on the #HMCSMermaid 🧜‍♀‍⛵‍ wrecksite at Flora Reef.The government broad arrow can be seen at the top of the wheel.

This project is undertaken in partnership with @sea.museum.

📸: Xanthe Rivett/Silentworld Foundation.

#Shipwrecks #Archaeology #Archaeologyfieldwork #Copper #Diving #Wreck #Sand #Artefacts #Sitework #ArchaeologyLovers #HistoryNerd #InstaHeritage #GreatBarrierReef #Artifacts

#ThrowbackThrusday to January 2020: The ground is

#ThrowbackThrusday to January 2020: The ground is lava! This is, of course, wishful thinking as we gingerly pick our way over a layer of ice to and from the boat. Loading up the gear in a winter wonderland for another day of diving on the potential site of HMB Endeavour with our colleagues from @sea.museum and the @rimarinearchaeologyproject ❄🤿😍.

#Fieldwork #Archaeology #DivingLife #IceIceBaby #babyitscoldoutside❄️ #RIMAP #HMBEndeavour #MaritimeArchaeology #Ice #IgArchaeology #IgArchaeologist

#FindsFriday Nothing like a spot of teamwork below

#FindsFriday Nothing like a spot of teamwork below the waves during the December 2018 #BootReef expedition 🤝🌊⚓.

📸: @seajewlz/Silentworld Foundation. This project was undertaken in partnership with @sea.museum.

Discover more expeditions at the link in our bio.

#Shipwrecks #Archaeology #ArchaeologyFieldwork #Diving #Wreck #Artefacts #Sitework #ArchaeologyLovers #HistoryNerd #InstaHeritage #Anchor #Reef #DivingLife #MaritimeHistory #MaritimePhotography #MaritimeArchaeology #OzArch #InstaArchaeology #Sea #Ocean #ArchaeologyLife #UnderwaterPhotography #FlashbackFriday #Artifact #Anchor #igarchaeology

A tragic sea dragon for #FindsFriday 🐉🌊.This

A tragic sea dragon for #FindsFriday 🐉🌊.This dragon-shaped belt buckle is from the wreck site of the #Dunbar, just off Sydney's #SouthHead.

In August 1857, Sydney residents awoke to the shocking news that the Dunbar had been wrecked due to a severe storm during the previous night. It would be several days until the sole survivor of the wreck - a member of ship's crew who was tossed on the cliffs at South Head - was found.

📸: @rae.malliaros /Silentworld Foundation, 2018.

#SydneyHistory #IgersSydney #SecretHistory #Shipwrecks #Archaeology #ArchaeologyFieldwork #Copper #Dragon #Diving #Wreck #Artefacts #Sitework #ArchaeologyLovers #HistoryNerd #InstaHeritage #DivingLife #MaritimeHistory #MaritimePhotography #MaritimeArchaeology #OzArch #InstaArchaeology #Waves #Sea #Ocean #UnderwaterPhotography #Dragon @kieranhosty

Diving into #FindsFriday for 2021, Kenn Reefs styl

Diving into #FindsFriday for 2021, Kenn Reefs style, with a #Throwback to the stunning expedition pics from January 2017, snapped by the talented @seajewlz 🤿📸.

This expedition was undertaken with our good mates from the archaeology team at @sea.museum .

#Achor #Shipwrecks #Archaeology #ArchaeologyFieldwork #Diving #Wreck #Coral #Artefacts #Sitework #ArchaeologyLovers #HistoryNerd #InstaHeritage #Artefacts #Reef #DivingLife #MaritimeHistory #MaritimePhotography #MaritimeArchaeology #OzArch #InstaArchaeology #Sea #Ocean #ArchaeologyLife #UnderwaterPhotography

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