Nautical archeology notes

Here are a few interesting odds and ends:

An old water mill in southern England was built using timbers from the USS Chesapeake, captured off Boston in 1813; the timbers still bear the marks of shot and shell.

Graves of Nelson's men from Battle of the Nile recently unearthed in Egypt.

After 270 years, Robert Drury's fantastic tale of shipwreck, enslavement, and escape turns out to be fact, not fiction. Was it really written up by Defoe? Will there now be a movie?

Recent research indicates that there may be as many as 59 wrecked galleons off the coasts of Panama.

Diving in the harbor of Alexandria, amidst the wreckage of the fabled lighthouse.

Poole Harbor is the oldest in Britain: two large jetties believed to have been Roman have been found to date to c. 250 BC instead.

Underwater treasure hunt in Bavaria after Nazi gold found in alpine lake.

Posted by David on November 11, 2002 12:35 PM