Studying The Princess Carolina, Anatomy of the Ship That Held Up Wall Street

*Honorable Mention for the 2024 John Lyman Book Award, sponsored by the North American Society for Oceanic History.

In January 1982, archaeologists conducting a pre-construction excavation at 175 Water Street in Lower Manhattan found the remains of eighteenth-century ship. Uncertain what they had found or what its significance might be, they called in nautical archaeologists Warren Riess and Sheli Smith to direct the excavation and analysis of the ship's remains. Learn more about this historic artifact now undergoing conservation at the Mariners' Museum.

Hardcover 136pp, 19 photos, 29 line art.