The Study and Reconstruction of the Hull of an 11th-Century Islamic Ship
FAIN: RO-20748-84
Texas A & M Research Foundation (College Station, TX 77843-0001)
Frederick H. Van Doorninck (Project Director: October 1983 to October 1990)
This project also received funding with the renewal award listed below.
Subsequent award (renewal) RO-21331-86
To provide continuing support for the first phase of the reassembly of the hullof an 11th century Islamic ship recovered in 1977-79 off the coast of Turkey. The ship is important as the earliest extant example of a ship built according to a skeletal construction.