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MA Thesis in Maritime History (Faculty of Letters, Lisbon University FLUL, 2014) - revised version The present thesis Shipwrecks of the “Carreira da Índia” (1595-1623) – Sources for the Study in Portuguese Maritime History deals with... more
1,419 references on the subject of Ancient Egyptian Shipbuilding and Navigation. Updated 12.07.2022.
General alphabetical list is followed by a list of recent publications (2018-2022).
General alphabetical list is followed by a list of recent publications (2018-2022).
During the period of activity of Ole Judichær (1690-1727), sources in the form of lines plans, ship models and construction documentation are preserved in the Danish National Archives and the Royal Danish Naval Museum. While some of these... more
A survey of naval power at the beginning of the steam era giving brief details of the major warships of all navies with some introductory remarks on each. Notes on the data appear after the bibliography. Third edition with new material on... more
Presentation made during the Third International Congress of Eurasian Maritime History - Istanbul, 10/05/2018 The last quarter of the 17th century witnessed the transformation of the Ottoman navy from an oared into a sailing battlefleet.... more
En el S. XVI mares y océanos se habían convertido en ajetreadas zonas de paso, confrontación, exploración, etc. por las que pululaban armadas, corsarios, piratas, comerciantes y aventureros tanto de coronas europeas como de reinos... more
Much has been written on the use of lead and copper sheathing in post mediaeval shipbuilding, yet evidence for such hull protection by Dutch shipwrights in the 17th and 18th centuries has received little attention. A discussion of the... more
"""Ship 17 of Thonis-Hercaleion is the first vessel from the submerged city of Heracleion-Thonis in Egypt yet excavated. The peculiar constructional features of this ship, which dates to the Late Period (664–332 BC), allow us to argue for... more
In the 1970s, off the west coast of Sicily, a wreck was discovered with apparent links to the battle at the Egadi Islands between the Punics and the Romans. The preserved section of the ship included Punic language characters that suggest... more
"For the reconstruction of the military Mycenaean world scarcely we possess the information extracted from diverse slats written in Linear B, as well as the remains of some pictorial representations and scanty archaeological remains... more
This paper is devoted to the debatable issue of presence versus absence of a keel in the construction of Egyptian ships of the dynastic period. It analyses ship representations and models dating to the 18th-20th dynasties of the New... more
The brief description of the Nilotic freighter called baris by Herodotus has long been recognized as being very important for the study of Egyptian shipbuilding in general and for that of the Late Period in particular. New archaeological... more
In the XVII century, when one of the naval culture development center was focused mainly in the Mediterranean area, disciplines such as geometry, mathematics, static and hydrodynamics had not yet been studied and early naval architecture... more
After many years of analyzing only the architectural defenses so called alla moderna of the venetian military power, this paper look at the sea power of the Serenissima and at her naval bases (with the Arsenale at first) as the main... more
In 1744, the Venetian sea captain Gerolamo Maria Balbi (1693– 1761) presented the Senate with a project to build a galea alla ponentina (" galley of Western design ") that would join the Venetian fleet based in Corfu. The Senate approved... more
Occasionally the archaeological ship reconstructor is fortunate enough to encounter the remains of a vessel on which shipwrights' design marks have been preserved. La Belle (1684) has the most extensive and complete set of such marks... more
Manuel Vicente Nunes is without doubt, one of the most important shipbuilders of Portuguese 18th century Naval History, regarding the several aspects that marked his life and work. On one hand, he is the perfect example of the changes in... more
In this dissertation, I argue against the conventional view that economic activity during the Archaic Period of Greek history (8th c. to the early 5th c. BCE) was a by-product of broader social and political developments, but instead... more
The article gives preliminary information on the shipwrecks of the submerged Egyptian city of Heracleion-Thonis excavated by the European Institute of Underwater Archaeology (IEASM). Underwater surveys started in 1996 in the Bay of Abukir... more
This paper will present an unpublished document preserved in the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice and datable to the second half of the sixteenth century. It deals the technical description of two ships, a galleon and a naveta. The... more
El presente estudio tiene el propósito de analizar la política industrial desarrollada por la monarquía hispánica para la producción de buques de guerra durante un largo siglo XVIII comprendido entre 1670 y 1834. Su hipótesis fundamental... more
HERITAGE. A Millennium ago, communities of outcasts rejected for obscure reasons appeared in Gascony and Navarra. They were known as Agots or Cagots. Reasons of such an exclusion have been in discussion for more than 500 years and are... more
ABSTRACT: How it was more than just the Buccaneer bomber, that came into existence as a response to the Soviet construction of surface raiding capable Cruisers, such as the Sverdlov class, during the 1950s.
This study focuses on the construction of the largest ship produced in the new shipyard in Belém, the Ship of the line Nossa Senhora de Belém e S. José (1766-1805) by the shipbuilder Luís Isidoro de Gouveia, whose history is closely... more
The volume is the publication of the proceedings of the international colloquium ‘La batellerie égyptienne’ (The Egyptian River Craft) held in Alexandria in June 2010. Organized by the Centre d’Études Alexandrines, the event brought... more
Longtemps ignorée, on reconnaît aujourd’hui l’existence d’une tradition de construction navale propre à la côte méditerranéenne de la péninsule Ibérique. Plusieurs épaves en témoignent et mettent en évidence une forte influence... more
Resumen. El objetivo del presente estudio es comprender la etapa formativa de la industria de la construcción naval española en Asia, a partir de la percepción oficial acerca de la riqueza y la utilidad de los recursos madereros... more
Evidence for Ancient Egyptian boatbuilding during the Late Period (664-332 BC) is very scarce and thus the description of Herodotus (“Histories” II.96, c.450 BC) of the local Egyptian boat called “baris” is of great interest. Different... more
Nesta Edição: Memórias de uma Guerra: A primeira invasão holandesa na Capitania da Paraíba (1631) Leandro Vilar Forçamento do Passo de Humaitá: Um estudo sobre as asserções que os documentos oficiais exibem Aldeir Isael Faxina Barros A... more
SUMMARY: The 84-gun ship Riksäpplet was one of the first ships in Sweden built under supervision of the newly recruited English master. In 1676, the ship came adrift, struck a rock and sank. In 2015 a minor field survey of the wreck was... more
The remains of a Roman barge were found in 1981 in the River Stella, Udine, Italy. Its cargo consisted mainly of roof tiles. It was excavated in 1998 and 1999, and detailed recording of the hull, and a second wooden structure, was... more