Florida State University
Research in Underwater Archaeology

Emanuel Point shipwreck

Florida's earliest shipwreck site was discovered in 1992 by a team from the Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research during a survey of Pensacola Bay. Preliminary excavations were conducted in conjunction with the Historic Pensacola Preservation Board and the University of West Florida. The investigations determined that the lower hull of a Colonial Spanish ship, along with its contents, are in a surprising state of preservation.

Golden Hinde

Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe over 400 years ago aboard Golden Hinde. A meticulously reconstructed fully operational warship was built in 1973 and is now berthed on the River Thames in the heart of London as an educational living history museum.

Newnan's Lake Canoes

Drought conditions across north-central Florida lowered water levels in many lakes, ponds, and streams, exposing nearly 100 canoes in Newnan¹s Lake, just east of Gainesville in Alachua County.

The Tall Ship Elissa

Elissa was a square-rigged, iron-hulled barque launched in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1877. She was a British trading ship, and made several trips to Galveston, Texas. In 1975 the Galveston Historical Foundation purchased the deteriorated hulk of the Elissa, and she now sails again, fully restored. This is an excellent site and includes a very good list of nautical links.

Athenian Trireme Olympias

Olympias is a reconstruction of an Athenian Trireme of the 5th to 4th century B.C. It was built by a naval architect attempting to create a historically accurate vessel. Olympias was commissioned into the Hellenic Navy in 1987. This webpage contains sp ecific information on Olympias as well as general information on triremes and ancient Meditteranean seafaring.

Friendship, a 1797 Salem East Indiaman

The Friendship will be a replica of the original 1797 Friendship. Construction of this ship is part of a $35 million ongoing development underway at the Salem Maritime National Historic Site. Friendship is designed to be historically accurate and will b e the first such ship of this size and historical detail built in over 100 years. The construction will begin in the summer of 1996, and is sponsored by the National Park Service and the Salem Partnership.

HMS Bounty Replica

HMS Bounty, a replica of the famous 18th century tall ship, was commissioned by MGM studios for the 1962 remake Mutiny of the Bounty. It is now at Battleship Cove, Fall River, Massachusetts.

Diana Nemorensis

The web page for the project to reconstruct the Roman ship that was brought out of the waters of lake Nemi near Rome in 1930 has been in existence for some time but I have not hitherto publicised it much while it was in its early stages. Now it is half respectable and the project itself is making substantial progress. News of the present situation and also commentary about the original archaeological venture together with images can be found on the web page in the various sections.

Portsmouth Historic Ships

This page gives information on three historic ships housed in the city of Portsmouth, England. The Mary Rose (Henry VIII's battleship) , HMS Victory (Admiral Nelson's flagship), and HMS Warrior (Britain's first ironclad) are all open to the public. The site gives information on the ships, the Royal Navy Museum, and tourist information.

Reconstruction of the Batavia

This page details the reconstruction of Batavia, a 17th century Dutch East Indiaman.

USS Constitution (restoration)

This page is devoted to one of the most famous ship's in United States Naval history: "Old Ironsides" or USS Constitution, built in 1797.

HMS Rose

HMS Rose is a replica of a sixth rate British frigate built in 1757. This replica was built in 1970 and serves as a training ship and is making an Atlantic crossing in 1996. The original ship played an important role in American history, serving the British in the French-Indian and the Revolutionary Wars. The HMS Rose Foundation also maintains a webpage, Travels with the Tall Ship Rose.

SchoonerMan

A site dedicated to tall ships: schooners, brigs, brigantines, and barks. The site has lots of beautiful pictures and information, and links to various tall ships and maritime history sites.

Continental Sloop Providence

The Providence is a replica of the famous Revolutionary War ship. She was a square-topsail-gaff-rigged sloop, the first ship commissioned into the Continental Navy and the first command of John Paul Jones. The new Providence is a replica built for the 1976 bicentenial. She has logged over 100,000 miles and is berthed in Providence, Rhode Island.

The Matthew Project

The Matthew was John Cabot's ship which brought English colonists to the new world in 1497. In 1997, for the 500 year anniversury of the voyage, a replica was built and a modern crew sailed it across the Atlantic. This webpage details the project and the ship's history.

HMS Victory

This is the famous flagship of England's greatest admiral, Nelson. HMS Victory is still afloat in Portsmouth. There are many webpages providing information on Victory and her admiral. Among them are the official HMS Victory page of Flagship Portsmouth, and MS Victory on the Web, which includes links to many other Victory sites.

The Slave Schooner Amistad

A replica of the 19th century slave schooner Amistad is being built in Mystic Seaport. This slaver was made famous in 1839 after its human cargo staged a successful revolt, took over the ship, were captured and tried in an American court. Ex-President John Quincy Adams came out of retirement to represent the slaves, who were eventually granted their freedom. This page details the history of the ship, its construction at Mystic Seaport, links, products, press releases, and other information.

Captain Cook's Ship Endeavour

HMS Bark Endeavor was one of the most famous exploratory ships of all time. In 1769, Lt. James Cook set sail on a voyage of discovery in a Whitby collier. That voyage took him around the world in three years, in which he discovered and charted a large part of the southern lands. This replica is now maintained in Australia, but she is currently sailing around the world, from Australia to South Africa, and eventually through the UK, North America, and the Pacific Islands. This web page provides detailss on the ship itself, her history, sailing opportunities, and her current location and destination.

U.S.S. Constellation

U.S.S. Constellation was launched at the Gosport Navy Yard in Norfolk, Virginia in 1854. Bearing the same name as the famous frigate of 1797 she is a sloop-of war of 22 guns. Her original battery was comprised of 8" muzzle loading shell guns. She is 179 feet long on deck and displaces approximately 1400 tons and is the largest all sail sloop-of-war built by the Navy. She set 20,000 square feet of sails and is the last all-sail warship built by the U.S. Navy. After a deployment in the Mediterranean Constellation interdicted slave traders off the coast of Africa from 1859 to 1861. After the Civil War she saw various duties, carrying famine relief to Ireland, carrying precious American works of art to the Paris Exposition of 1878, and serving as a training ship for Naval Academy midshipmen from 1873 to 1893. Since then the ship, now berthed in Baltimore, has undergone massive restoration efforts (still underway) and is open to the public.

U.S. Brig Niagra

This ship, residing in Erie, Pennsylvania, is a reconstruction of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry's flagship in the battle of Lake Erie. It was completed in the summer of 1990, and has since represented the state of Pennsylvania and Erie during an ambitious program of sailing and historic interpretation. This site provides a lot of information, including data pertaining to the ship's history, the associated maritime museum, press releases, sailing schedule, etc.

The Lady Washington Homepage

Sometime around 1750, a 90-ton trading vessel, the Washington, was built on Essex River, Massachusetts. Some 20 years later she was renamed Lady Washington. She plied the Pacific, rounding Cape horn to trade on the western coast of North America and crossing the Pacific to trade with China. A group of Washington's maritime history buffs in the 1980s organized the construction of a replica of this historic ship in time for Washington State's centennial celebrations. This site contains sailing schedules, photographs, information on the ship's history, the ship's crew, nautical lore, and other interesting data.

The webpage is dedicated to the six-masted schooner. Ten of these majestic vessels were built in America during the twilight of the Age of Sail, between 1900 and 1909. With their simplicity of rigging, they needed smaller crews and thus were economical to operate and compete with steam-powered vessels.