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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

Happy Fri-yay #ArchaeologyLovers. Gather round for

Happy Fri-yay #ArchaeologyLovers. Gather round for a #FindsFriday yarn, featuring two emus!

In 1825, the three-masted convict carrier of 471 tonnes, #RoyalCharlotte was on a journey from Sydney to India with soldiers from several regiments and their families. Gale force winds during the passage through the Outer Route, east of the Great Barrier Reef caused the vessel to run aground on incorrectly charted rocks of #FrederickReef.

The crew and passengers attempted to lighten the ship in the hope of re-floating off the reef by throwing as much as possible overboard, including the masts and two emus.Yes. Two Emus.

Sadly the efforts of the crew and passengers were futile and it soon became clear that they must abandon the ship. They made their way to a small nearby sand cay (#ObservationCay), led by the emus.

📸: Xanthe Rivett / © Silentworld Foundation. The 2012 expedition to find the Royal Charlotte was part of an Australian Research Council project, a joint project between @sea.museum, the Silentworld Foundation and Sydney University.

#Artefacts #Artifacts #Sitework #Historylovers #HistoryNerd #InstaHeritage #Shipwreck #Anchor #Reef #Coral #Diving #DivingTrip #Archaeology #MaritimeHistory #MaritimePhotography #OzArch #ArchaeologyFieldwork #InstaArchaeology #IgersQueensland #GreatBarrierReef

Yay it's #AskAConservator day! Conservator and res

Yay it's #AskAConservator day! Conservator and research assistant @nudibranchqueen will be here to answer your questions from 10am Thursday (Sydney time), as today was a busy day at the conservation facility working on the #BarangarooBoat 🔬⛵☺.

Leave your questions as a comment on this post or send it via the question box our Stories.

#Conservation #BehindTheScenes #SydneyMetro #Archaeology #MaritimeArchaeology #ConservatorLife #ArtifactConservation #ArtefactConservation

Happy #FindsFriday! In 2013 Silentworld Foundation

Happy #FindsFriday! In 2013 Silentworld Foundation and the Australian National Maritime Museum set out to find not one, but TWO shipwrecks at Ferguson Reef ⛵️⛵️.

Carrying the Queen’s own 50th Regiment of Foot from Sydney bound for battles in India, Fergusson, a three-masted armed vessel of 555 tonnes, wrecked in the Coral Sea in 1841. All were rescued by accompanying vessels. The reef upon which it struck is now known as Ferguson Reef.

The opium trader, Morning Star 🌠, is reported to have been lost in 1814 about 10 nautical miles inshore of Ferguson Reef. Some survivors set off in a boat to reach help – those stranded were rescued by a passing vessel. Of the boat crew, only one survived a capsizing event.

📸: Xanthe Rivett / © Silentworld Foundation.

#artefacts #sitework #archaeologylovers #historynerd #instaheritage #shipwreck #anchor #reef #coral #diving #divinglife #archaeology #maritimehistory #maritimephotography #maritimearchaeology #OzArch #archaeologyfieldwork #InstaArchaeology #anchor #waves #sea #ocean #flipper

#FindsFriday: Here's a throwback to January 2009,

#FindsFriday: Here's a throwback to January 2009, when the team solved a 180-year-old mystery by locating the wreck site of #HMCSMermaid, which was lost on a coral reef off the Queensland coast in 1829.

Did you catch special guest @kieranhosty's retelling the story of the wreck, and terrible luck of the survivors, in our Spooky Shipwrecks video? (link in bio)

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

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

Underwater scribbles...I mean, site recording #Mus

Underwater scribbles...I mean, site recording #Museum30 Day 3: Scribble ⚓️✍️🌊.

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

#Flippers #Shipwrecks #Archaeology #ArchaeologyFieldwork #Diving #Wreck #Coral #Artefacts #Sitework #ArchaeologyLovers #HistoryNerd #InstaHeritage #Artefacts #Reef #DivingLife #MaritimeHistory #MaritimePhotography #MaritimeArchaeology #OzArch #InstaArchaeology #Sea #Ocean #ArchaeologyLife #UnderwaterPhotography #Anchor #Scribble @magnifyzoology

It be the spooky season, so are ye ready for a shi

It be the spooky season, so are ye ready for a shipwreck tale or two? May include ghosts 👻, bad luck ❌🍀 and drunken captains 😲. Scary stories be found at the link in bio.

Join @rae.malliaros and @kieranhosty (Australian National Maritime Museum, @sea.museum) for chat about #MatthewFlinders, #Cato and the #HMCSMermaid - two shipwreck sites on the Great Barrier Reef, to which the Silentworld Foundation and the Museum have undertaken collaborative expeditions.

📸 Credits:
1. Made with canva.
2-4. Xanthe Rivett/Silentworld Foundation.

#Shipwrecks #Archaeology #MaritimeHistory #Cato #Mermaid #HMCSMermaid #spookystory #Halloween #Diving #Expedition #OzHistory #HistoryNerd #AustralianHistory #Superstition #SailorLife #Folklore #Chat

It's a bountiful #FindsFriday! #Throwback to Octob

It's a bountiful #FindsFriday! #Throwback to October 2017, when the team visited the #PitcairnIslands. Although settled in the past by Polynesian groups, Pitcairn Island is mostly known as the final destination and new home of the mutinous members of #HMSBounty’s crew.

The vessel was acquired by the Royal Navy in 1787 and refitted specifically for a mission to Tahiti to acquire breadfruit plants and transport them back to the West Indies.

However, before the voyage and mission were complete, some of the crew mutinied – they were led by the first mate, Fletcher Christian. They set the ship’s master, #WilliamBligh, an officer of the Royal Navy, adrift on a small boat along with those of the crew that remained loyal to the captain.

After some time the mutineers came to settle on Pitcairn with a number of Tahitian men and women. There they stripped the #Bounty of material they might need for their new home and then burned the vessel to the waterline so that they may not be discovered. Pitcairn Island is, to this day, still inhabited by many of the crew’s direct descendants.

The Silentworld team visited and assessed the condition of HMS Bounty wreck site and other wrecks around Pitcairn Island. They also saw artefacts from HMS Bounty, held at the local museum on Pitcairn.

📸: @seajewlz /Silentworld Foundation.

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

#FindsFriday A spot of teamwork during the Decembe

#FindsFriday A spot of teamwork during the December 2018 Boot Reef expedition 🤝.

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

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

#FindsFriday Pro tip: Always take the camera with

#FindsFriday Pro tip: Always take the camera with you on a dive 📷🧜‍♂️👍.

Another of the large #anchors documented during the 2017 expedition to #KennReefs. This project was undertaken in partnership with @sea.museum. The diver is taking pictures for the site report as well as documenting the condition and location of the artefact ⚓️✏️🔎.

📸: @seajewlz/Silentworld Foundation.

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

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