Iron and Steamship Archaeology

Success and Failure on the SS Xantho

Michael McCarthy

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English

Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
31 January 2001

Underwater archaeology; Shipbuilding technology, engineering & trades

Series: The Springer Series in Underwater Archaeology

In the early 1980s the author was asked to investigate the newly-discovered wreck of the Xantho, an iron screw steamship active off the Australian coast during the period 1848 to 1872, and to develop a strategy to stop the looting that was occurring at the site. This relatively straightforward assignment turned into a long-term research programme for applying maritime archaeology to the conservation of iron-hulled wrecks.

By: Michael McCarthy
Imprint: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2000 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 1.180kg
ISBN: 9780306463655
ISBN 10: 0306463652
Series: The Springer Series in Underwater Archaeology
Pages: 234
Publication Date: 31 January 2001
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Iron and Steamship Archaeology: Success and Failure on the SS Xantho

'McCarthy has done an outstanding job detailing an excavation form first notification to the last conservation stages. This might serve well as a text in maritime archaeology theory, maritime history, or conversation courses. All collections.' Choice, 38:11 (2001)