SCANNING THE BARANGAROO BOAT
HOW TO SCAN A BOATIn many pieces and with much gumption - musing of a 3D scanning novice You can walk a bit faster. Point the scanner at the…
Iron ballast from HMB Endeavour
HMB Endeavour runs aground — time to throw some items overboard... On 10 June 1770, HMB Endeavour under the command of Captain James Cook was…
How to clean a sword
The closer you look, the more cleaning you will do... I recently had the wonderful opportunity to carry out some routine cleaning on a dress sword…
The fabled land of Beach, Locach, Java La Grande, and Terra Australis Incognita
Reading Time: 4 minutes How 40,000 years after the first Australians arrived, Australia was “discovered” againFrom Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD,…
Cleaning the Barangaroo Boat
How does one clean a boat?I was once turfed off the side of a working boat in scuba gear, handed a brush and told to not come up till it was clean.…
Finding the Barangaroo Boat
Like a boat on land – musings of a maritime archaeologist on the Barangaroo Boat (terrestrial) dig ‘Want to come along and check out this boat…
The Battle of Rhode Island
WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THE BRITISH SHIPS WERE SCUTTLED?After the British intentionally sunk some of their ships in order to keep the French naval force…
Searching for Endeavour
COLLIER. EXPLORER. TRANSPORTER. LEGEND.In search of HMB Endeavour. In September 2018, SWF joined the Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project (RIMAP)…
THE COLOURS OF WRECKS
A work of fact by: Irini (Renee) Malliaros and Dr James Hunter (ANMM) This past January, a collaborative research team comprising maritime…