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  • 1st year excavation | 2017
  • 2nd year excavation | 2018
  • 3rd year excavation | 2019

  • Entire excavation | Site

    • The wreck is identified as Anémone, a French navy schooner, built in Bayonne, France, in 1823, that sank during the hurricane of 7–8 September 1824. The ship was used as a patrol and customs ship in Guadeloupe to fight against the illicit slave trade.
    The wreck is located in the Saintes Bay (South of Guadeloupe, FWI) in 25 meters of water. It had been looted in the 1990’s and had not been investigated before the identification of the site thank to archival research in 2013.
    The multiyear underwater excavation begun in 2015, funded by the Département des recherches archéologiques subaquatiques et sous-marines (DRASSM, Department of Submarine and Undersea Archaeological Research) of the French Ministry of Culture, and the Direction des patrimoines, de la mémoire et des archives (DMPA, Department of Heritage, Memory and Archives) of the French Ministry of the Army.

    Geotag:
    15°52'21.9" N 61°35'17.7" W
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    Related Articles:
  • Jean-Sébastien Guibert, Franck Bigot, Hélène Botcazou. Overview of Anémone wreck project 2015-2019 (Les Saintes Guadeloupe French West Indies). Proceedings of 54th Annual Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Society for Historical Archaeology, 2022.
  • Jean-Sébastien Guibert, Franck Bigot, Magali Lachèvre, Jean-Jacques Maréchal, Marine Sadania, et al.. Second campaign of excavation on the Saintes Bay Wreck, Guadeloupe, FWI. ACUA. Underwater Archaeology Proceedings, 2017.


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