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( continued from page 54 ) ring dating identified the ship’s timbers as Irish oak trees felled during the reign of King Henry III. Items recovered from the site include two Purbeck gravestone slabs from Dorset and two cauldrons. Also found on the site were multiple Purbeck stone mortars, used to grind grain, and earning the site the identification “the Mortar Wreck.” The two other wrecks, identified
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New York City Pickle Night, Saturday November 12, 2022 New York Yacht Club Join the American Friends of the National Museum of the Royal Navy in commemorating the historic journey in 1805 of His Majesty’s Schooner Pickle, bringing news from Trafalgar to London of Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson’s death and the victory at the Battle of Trafalgar. This year marks the 217th anniversary of the history-making Battle of Trafalgar and the 17th New York City Pickle Night Event. Commemorate these significant events at this exclusive gathering held at the New York Yacht Club in Manhattan, with keynote remarks from Vice Admiral Martin Connell CBE, Second Sea Lord, Royal Navy.
The “Mortar Wreck” artifacts include decorated Purbeck gravestones. Purbeck stone is a form of limestone made from densely packed shells of freshwater snails and is quarried from the Isle of Purbeck. Image:“I Have Urgent Dispatches” by Gordon Frickers
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as NW96 and NW68, were located on the Shingles Bank in the Needles Channel. The NW96 wreck contained lead ingots cast from a “bole”—a type of furnace no longer used after around 1580, suggesting that the wreck occurred in either the 16th century or the very late 15th century. The NW68 wreck possessed one cannon cast in Amsterdam between 1621 and 1661, suggesting that that vessel was likely a 17thcentury armed Dutch vessel. Inclusion of the three sites on the National Heritage List means that divers will need a license administered by Historic England to dive the wrecks, and the sites will be carefully monitored. There are 57 such protected wreck sites in English waters. (www.historicengland.org.uk) … The Bayshore Center in Bivalve, New Jersey, welcomed home its historic schooner A. J. Meerwald on 6 August. Since September of last year, the Meerwald had been in Belfast, Maine, in the capable hands of Clark & Eisele Traditional Boatbuilding. That haulout was the final phase of an extended renovation project, which has included a replacement of the engine and generator, as well as the jib and foresail, rudder, SEA HISTORY 180, AUTUMN 2022