Iron and Steamship Archaeology: Success and Failure on the SS Xantho (The Springer Series in Underwater Archaeology)

by Michael J. McCarthy (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2001

  $113.95

  In the early 1980s the author was asked to investigate the newly discovered wreck of the Xantho, an iron screw steamship active off the Australian coast during the period 1848 to 1872, and to develop a strategy to stop the looting that was occurring at the site.