Browsing Maritime Studies by Title
Now showing items 121-140 of 250
-
Keeping History Afloat: A Study of the Preservation of the Museum Ship Olympia
(East Carolina University, 2018-12-10)Historic ships are crucial to understanding maritime and naval history. The preservation of working vessels and museum ships of historical significance is necessary to ensure their continued availability for public ... -
Making Land With Pirates
(East Carolina University, 2016-05-03)Privateer and pirate islands required four basic components to make them successful. First, the islands needed to lack economic potential for the imperial powers. The lack of economic potential led to governmental neglect ... -
MANILA GALLEONS IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE CULTURAL IMPACTS ON SANTA MARGARITA AND NUESTRA SEÑORA DE LA CONCEPCIÓN
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)Between the 16th and 18th centuries, Spain prospered as a dominant trading empire with the help of the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade network. While Spain's empire grew with the trade network, some disasters struck Manila ... -
A Maritime History of Okracoke Inlet, 1584-1783
(1987-11) -
Marsh macrophyte responses to inundation anticipate impacts of sea-level rise and indicate ongoing drowning of North Carolina marshes
(2012-10)In situ persistence of coastal marsh habitat as sea level rises depends on whether macrophytes induce compensatory accretion of the marsh surface. Experimental planters in two North Carolina marshes served to expose two ... -
Matters of Steel : Illustrating and Assessing the Deterioration of the World War II Merchant Freighter Caribsea
(East Carolina University, 2015)The purpose of this thesis is to acquire historical and archaeological datasets for the illustration and interpretation of site formation processes affecting a World War II merchant shipwreck, and to use this data to develop ... -
The migration of the sharpie : economic, environmental, and archaeological aspects
(East Carolina University, 2015)In the late nineteenth century, the United States saw the development of a crucial working vessel type, the sharpie. This thesis will demonstrate that as the sharpie migrated south down the east coast of the United States, ... -
Modern Greece : Values of a Civil War Blockade-Runner
(East Carolina University, 2014-11-12)On June 27, 1862, during the American Civil War, the blockade-runner Modern Greece ran aground off the coast of Wilmington, NC. The ship was within reach of the guns of Fort Fisher, protecting the vessel from the Union ...