.SHIP NOTES, SEAPORT & MUSEUM NEWS Historic England, a government heritage organization, is investigating what it believes to be the ship Holigost (or Holy Ghost), part of Henry V's fleet, in the River Hamble in Hampshire. The site lies near the wreck of the Grace Dieu , Henry's flagship, which was identified in the 1930s in a "medieval breakers' yard." Historian Ian Friel discovered the remains while reexamining aerial photographs of the site in researching his latest book, Hen ry Navy: The Sea-Road to Agincourt and Conquest 1413-1422. Holigostwas the flagship of the Duke of Bedford at the battle of Harfleur in 1416, and also took part in the fighting off the Chef de Caux in 1417. The ship was rebuilt in 1415 from the hull of a captured Spanish vessel, Santa Clara. It was one of four famous vessels known as the "great ships," the biggest built in medieval England and reported to be the most heavily gun-armed of Henry V 's fleet. Holigostalso
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Amphorae from one ofthe newly discovered ship wreck sites along the Fourni archipelago.
of local sponge divers, fishermen, and free divers. Together, the team found shipwrecks dating from the Archaic Period (700-480 BC) though the Late Medieval Period (16th century). There were several wrecks dating to the Classical (480-323 BC) and Hellenistic (323-31 BC) periods, but over half of the wrecks date to the Late Roman Period (circa 300-600 AD). Fourni is a collection of thirteen islands between the eastern Aegean islands of Samas and Icaria. The group of small islands never hosted large cities, instead its importance comes from its critical role as an anchorage and navigational point in the eastern Aegean. Fourni lies along a major east-west Mediterranean shipping route, as well as the primary north-south route that connected the Aegean to the Levant. The items identified from the ships' cargoes indicate Depiction of a carrack, carrying john of long-distance trade between the Black Sea, Gaunt to Lisbon, gives researchers an idea of Aegean Sea, Cyprus, the Levant, and Egypt what the Holigost might have looked like. in all these periods. Archaeologists mapped h as the distinction of being the first re- each shipwreck using photogrammerry to corded instance of a ship undergoing un- create 3D site plans. The team excavated derwater repairs by a diver. (www.histori- representative artifacts from each wreck cengland.org.uk) ... The first-ever survey site to analyze further; plans are in place of the Fourni archipelago in late October to continue surveying the site next year. To yielded twenty-two shipwreck sites, add- date, only 5 percent of the Fourni coast has ing to the total number of discovered been surveyed. The project was directed by ancient shipwrecks in Greece by a full George Koutsouflakis (EUA), Jeffrey Roy12 percent. The project, a joint effort of al (RPMNF), and Peter Campbell (RPMthe Greek Ephorate of Underwater Antiq- NF/University of Southampton) and was uities (EUA) and RPM Nautical Founda- funded by the Honor Frost Foundation. tion (RPMNF), worked with the assistance (EUA: 59 D. Areopagitou & Erehthiou 48
Str., 117 42 Athens; email: eena@culture. gr; RPMNF: www.rpmnautical.org; Honor Frost Foundation: www.honorfrostfoundation.org) . . . The Bayfrom Maritime Center of Erie, Pennsylvania, recently launched a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund the construction of a wooden deck on their replica of the gunboat schooner Porcupine. The team is modifying a donated forty-foot unfinished fiberglass hull to resemble the original Porcupine, the
Schooner Porcupine depicted above; her modern reincarnation in progress, below.
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