Shipwrecks off the Coast of Lithuania
Volume 14 (2010): Underwater Archaeology in the Baltic Region, pp. 28–46
Pub. online: 20 December 2010
Type: Article
Open Access
Open Access
Received
29 November 2010
29 November 2010
Revised
13 December 2010
13 December 2010
Accepted
20 December 2010
20 December 2010
Published
20 December 2010
20 December 2010
Abstract
The article presents the latest data on ships sunk in Lithuanian territorial waters of the Baltic Sea obtained during archaeological research conducted by the Underwater Archaeology Group of Klaipėda University. The article contains detailed descriptions of the ways these ships were wrecked as found in historical sources from the 14th to the early 20th century, the localisation of newly found remains of wooden ships, data of their study and possibilities for dating them.