News and special features
MaSS database
Since March 2021 I am commissioned with adding wrecks from German waters and beyond to a global database on historic wrecksites.
New review on the Schlachte Wreck
In this review I discuss Manfred Rech’s 2016 book on the Schlachte wreck
BalticRIM final report published
The report can be downloaded as PDF
Graph for the BalticRIM Project
18.11.20. A new graph was presented for the final report of the BalticRIM Project (forthcoming)
Available online now
04.10.20. Itsas Memoria article on: “Bayonese cogs, Genoese carracks, English dromons and Iberian carvels: Tracing technology transfer in medieval Atlantic shipbuilding”
End of the BalticRIM Project
30.09.20. After 3 years the Interreg-funded BalticRIM Project is coming to an end. A final report will be released in due course on the project website.
Wreck near Süderoogsand investigated
08.05.20. After the Hörnum Odde wreck this is already the second wreck in Schleswig-Holstein, which has the distinctive features of Dutch shell-first shipbuilding..
Interview with German broadcaster
02.04.20. In early April I was interviewed about a newly discovered shipwreck (in German)
New shipwreck investigated off Hallig Hooge, Germany
12.12.19. An interim report has been published on a half-carvel construction from the early 17th century
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