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Project colour photographs

551 434/2/3

Description Project colour photographs

Date 1973 to 1975

Collection Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin

Catalogue Number 551 434/2/3

Category All Other

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1325473

Collection Hierarchy - Sub-Group Level

Preview Category Catalogue Number Title Date Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 1325742 Eilean Rubha an Ridire from the Table of Lorn, looking south towards Mull, Scallastle Bay right of centre. The wreck is close to the right-hand tip of the island. 1974 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 1325745 The wreck of the 'puffer' Ballista lost on Eilean Rubha an Ridire in 1973. It was during a visit to this wreck in August of that year that the Dartmouth was located. 1974 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 1325743 Eilean Rubha an Ridire from the Table of Lorn, looking south towards Mull, with part of Scallastle Bay on the right. The wreck is close to the right-hand tip of the island. 1974 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 1325744 Bristol Undersea Archaeology Group's visit to the site in 1973. 1974 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 1325746 The Ballista wreck at high water. The inflatable boat is anchored over the Dartmouth site. 1974 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 1325747 The Bristol Undersea Archaeology Group and the St Andrews University team at work on the wreck-site, 1974. 1974 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 1325748 The original members of the Bristol Undersea Archaeology Group investigate concretions recovered from the wreck, 1973. Left to right, Roger Holman, Allan Carr, Ray Bishop, and John Adnams. 1974 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 1325749 The statutory wreck protection notice, 1973, flanked by (left) Roger Holman and (right) Ray Bishop of the Bristol Undersea Archaeology Group. 1974 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 1325750 The St Andrews University team's inflatable boat containing charged aqualung cylinders and the water-pump used to power a suction dredge on the site. The dredge tube is lashed to the right-hand side of the boat. 1974 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 1325751 The team travelled daily to the site from Mull by inflatable boat and set up operations on the island. 1974 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 1325752 Richard Larn (left) and Tony Long (right) with the high-pressure compressor used to charge the aqualung cylinders. 1974 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 1325753 Once excavation began the aqualungs were replaced by a hookah surface-demand system which obviated the chore of charging cylinders and greatly increased underwater time on this shallow site. 1974 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 1325754 Jeremy Green (left) of the Western Australian Maritime Museum and Professor David Switzer of Plymouth State University, New Hampshire, at work on the project. Several distinguished foreign visitors participated in the project during these early years of the evolution of maritime archaeology as a serious discipline, in which Scotland played a leading part. 1974 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 1325755 Roger Holman tending the dredge pump. The disturbed water in the background marks the discharge from the dredge. 1974 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 1325756 Tony Long, the indispensable diving technician from St Andrews University, tending the dredge pump 1974 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 1325758 Tony Long with the ingenious lifting device using a yacht-trailer winch, which used the flotation of the boat to raise heavy objects. 1974 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 1325759 Tony Long towing a section of the hull structure suspended beneath a lifting-bag. 1974 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 1325760 Jill Sweetnam proudly displays a gold guinea she has just found (D1002). 1974 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 1325761 Keith Muckelroy takes preliminary measurements from a lodging-knee which has just been brought ashore. 1974 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 1325762 Keith Muckelroy takes preliminary measurements from a lodging-knee which has just been brought ashore. 1974 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 1325763 The lodging-knee, securely packed wet in a purpose-built box, is loaded at Craignure for transport to the conservation laboratory at the National Museum of Antiquities in Edinburgh by Hugh McKerrell (left) and Keith Muckelroy (right). 1974 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 1325764 Tony Long (left) and Keith Muckelroy (right) securing a recovered section of the hull on a low loader for transport to Edinburgh. 1974 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 1325765 The recovered section of the keel on the slip at Craignure, showing the transverse capping of a scarph joint. 1974 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 1325766 A concreted cast-iron gun arrives at the conservation laboratory of the National Museum of Antiquities. Left to right: Jack Howells, Hugh McKerrell and Tony Long. 1974 Item Level

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