The Study and Reconstruction of the Hull of an Eleventh- Century Islamic Ship

FAIN: RO-*1157-81

Texas A & M Research Foundation (College Station, TX 77843-0001)
Frederick H. Van Doorninck (Project Director: April 1980 to October 1990)

To support analysis and conservation of the hull of an Islamic shipwreck which sank around A.D. 1025 and was excavated between 1977-1979 at Serce Liman, Turkey. The ship is the earliest to be discovered with a type of construction that represents an important advance in naval architecture.