256 pages, 6 x 9
81 b&w photos, appendix, notes, bibliography, index.
Hardcover
Release Date:26 Jan 2009
ISBN:9780813033204
HMS Fowey Lost and Found
Being the Discovery, Excavation, and Identification of a British Man-of-War Lost off the Cape of Florida in 1748
University Press of Florida
HMS Fowey Lost and Found traces the life of the ship, the court martial of her captain, her rediscovery in the 1970s, and the long process of artifact recovery and ship identification. Written for general readers, the result is a fascinating story of intrigue and adventure that stretches across the centuries.
Russell K. Skowronek is associate professor of anthropology and founder of the Archaeology Research Lab at Santa Clara University. George R. Fischer is the founder of the underwater archaeology program for the National Park Service, where he was an underwater archaeologist from 1959 to 1988.
