Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

1/1/1986 - 8/31/1988

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$97,220.00 (approved)
$97,218.04 (awarded)


The Nautical Archaeology of Ships of Discovery

FAIN: RO-21235-86

Texas A & M Research Foundation (College Station, TX 77843-0001)
Donald A. Frey (Project Director: June 1987 to March 1989)

Funding details:
Original grant (1986) $15,000.00
Supplement (1986) $25,000.00
Supplement (1987) $35,000.00
Supplement (1988) $22,220.00
Supplement (1989) ($1.96)

To support the cleaning, conserving, analyzing, and replicating of the artifacts collected from the Molasses Reef wreck, which is near an island north of Haiti. The site is producing information about the age of discovery.