Delighted that #Santa has delivered our loan of the #HMSAnson collection of artefacts to #TheHistoricDockyardChatham for exhibition starting March 26, 2026 @bournemouthuni.bsky.social @bumaritime.bsky.social One for the diary!

We are delighted that an eminent #Dorset funder has just donated a significant sum towards the #conservation of our #EASTFIELD gun from the #MarinaCamroseCollection @bournemouthuni.bsky.social More on the gun here: www.thisismast.org/shipwreck-co...

It's that time of the year again - Here's our 2025 Newsletter! Read all about it! www.thisismast.org/mast-newslet...

Preparing #HMSAnson (1781) artefacts for their exhibition at #ChathamDockyard next spring. There are some very fine pieces including #royalnavy medical instruments from the late 18th century newly conserved from the #marinacamroseshipwreckcollection @bournemouthuni.bsky.social

#Ostend for the #IKUWA 8th International Congress for UCH. Come and find out all about protecting heritage #underwater at our session Thursday on the #maritimeObservatory! And also learn about our amazing new museum collection of artefacts #MarinaCamroseShipwreckCollection @bumaritime.bsky.social

The last resting places for the sailors of #HMSPrinceofWales and #HMSRepulse sunk in 1941 are still not at peace #VJday Read our piece in @navalreview.bsky.social www.naval-review.com/news-views/m...

Here we are modelling MAST’s new and very exclusive range whilst working with @bumaritime.bsky.social @buarchanth.bsky.social #maritimearchaeology #Poole

#WatchingBrief is back with a report on new work by archaeologists from @mastarchaeology.bsky.social and a UK nuclear scientist which casts doubt on one of the most widely reported tropes in marine salvage, that the search for pre-nuclear steel drives the looting of shipwrecks from WW1 and WW2.

Honoured to present the case at @unesco.org for satellite monitoring to detect bad actors at sea using our #MaritimeObservatory, partnership with #OceanMind. Here the case of the looting of #HMSPRINCEOFWALES in the South China Sea by the Chinese barge #ChuanHong68 (full story on MAST’s website).

Our office this week as a @unesco.org #accreditedNGO @nauticalarch.bsky.social @adramar and others supporting and building #maritimehistory #maritimeheritage and the #marineenvironment

Before…and after. John Lethbridge’s model diving apparatus. He built his in 1715 and became a prolific shipwreck salvor. We’ve rebuilt our model now @bumaritime.bsky.social #MaritimeHistory #salvage #shipwrecks

Recent high-profile incidents of scrap-metal salvors illegally targeting the sunken remains of Second World War warships have drawn attention to the vulnerability of historic shipwrecks around the world. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/is-pre-nucle...

MAST with Laurence Jones of the #AtomicWeapons Establishment have teamed up to bust the myth of the link between shipwreck #looters and #prenuclearsteel #shipwrecks #navalwargraves ukdefencejournal.org.uk/is-pre-nucle...

Maritime networks as a vector for early farming/language dispersals: A comparative review www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We are really excited to welcome Michael Mainelli as MAST’s new Patron. Current @chamberofcommerce.bsky.social President, he brings a wealth of knowledge, experience and wisdom www.thisismast.org/people/trust...

A useful guide to nautical knots for Millennials #Navy #tallships #Ageofsail

Great spread in the @dailyexpressnews.bsky.social on our newly acquired #maritimecollection from #Charlestown in Cornwall. #Readallaboutit! #maritimehistory @bournemouthuni.bsky.social @bumaritime.bsky.social

You’ve all seen her gun. Here’s the #SSEastfield bell and possibly a gun sight (we need to study it carefully to be certain). You’ll remember the merchantship was torpedoed in the south western approaches off Cornwall in November 1917 @bumaritime.bsky.social #MaritimeHistory

So that’s a wrap. We have 10,337 artefacts and 27% of these are in active decay #maritimeHistory The next major step is to conserve them. Here’s Holly and Ian at the end of their marathon month in #Poole @bumaritime.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social

Today it’s a coconut day. This 300 year old fruit was in #HMSAssociation, the 90 gun 2nd rate ship sank in a storms off the #IslesofScilly in 1707 heralding the beginning of the search for #Longitude and safer seas every artefact tells a story @lloydsregister.bsky.social @bumaritime.bsky.social

Today's blog features the fascinating SS Eastfield gun and the #RoyalCharter - what is its link to the @metoffice.bsky.social? @bumaritime.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social #MaritimeHistory #Maritimesafety @lrfheritage.bsky.social www.thisismast.org/shipwreck-co...

Delighted to announce new work with @lrfheritage.bsky.social to identify #Pollutingwrecks in the #Arctic using a range of satellite-based remote sensing techniques #ProjectTangaroa #CEFAS www.thisismast.org/debrief/2025...

Our latest blog is out now - read all about the Grand Old Lady - and here a pair of binoculars from #RMSMedina @buarchanth.bsky.social @bumaritime.bsky.social #MaritimeHeritage www.thisismast.org/shipwreck-co...

Today we have been examining the #SSEastfield gun - we like a challenge and this is up there! It's a real mishmash -a French 90 mm 1877 cannon from land married to a 1905 Hotchkiss quick firing gun mount with a recoil system added in 1917. It will need a lot of conservation @bumaritime.bsky.social

Our Latest blog, with a focus on #RMSMedina, is out now! @bournemouthuni.bsky.social #Poole #RoyalYacht www.thisismast.org/shipwreck-co...

We can also do bling. Here is a fabulous whistle from #RMSMedina (see also previous) torpedoed in 1917. @bournemouthuni.bsky.social

Our new blog just published here including an evolving mystery on Dutch pre #Reformation artefacts #Poole @bournemouthuni.bsky.social www.thisismast.org/shipwreck-co...

Some interesting finds today whilst #ExcavatingtheCollection: a bottle of wine from the #Juno wrecked in 1797 identified from its bell in 1970. Also a mouth organ from #Medina. More on our blog tomorrow www.thisismast.org/shipwreck-co...

Just a small one today. An engraved spoon from #HMSRamillies, wrecked in 1760 off South Devon. (You saw some buttons yesterday.) Perhaps the owner didn’t want them nicked 😜 @bournemouthuni.bsky.social

Today we have the #PinWreck - #TheSantoChristodeCastello a 17th century Genoese merchantship @bournemouthuni.bsky.social #Poole #Excavatingthecollection. Here's Holly

It's #Aladdin'sCave at our unit as we start our #conservationassessment from the #Charlestown collection. Here #HMSRamillies knife handles - that rhyme. @bournemouthuni.bsky.social #Poole

Not posting so much this week except this beautiful beast, our new forklift from #Linde-Mh, essential to access and sort all out #maritimeartefacts! We start t open the boxes in March for a full assessment @bournemouthuni.bsky.social

Last but not least the SS Eastfield gun: it’s going to need a lot of love @bournemouthuni.bsky.social #navalhistory

Ever played artefact #Tetris? Well we have. Excited to welcome the greatest assemblage of #maritime artefacts in the country at our Centre in #Poole from #Charlestown. Now to conduct a conservation assessment. Standby! @bournemouthuni.bsky.social

At last we are on manoeuvres! #Charlestown is packed and the largest collection of maritime artefacts in the country is soon to be in #Poole to be conserved and shared. Thanks to @bournemouthuni.bsky.social alumni Holly Hughes, Ian Panter and a great team #navalhistory

A barrel of nails from #AdmiralGardner wrecked off the Goodwins in 1809 has taken a team and some considerable ingenuity to prepare it for transport. Tin foil, then cling film, then plaster of Paris then lifted (by crane off floor to which it was wedded). Now to #Poole @bournemouthuni.bsky.social

@bournemouthuni.bsky.social grad Holly Hughes packs a porthole from #SSMendi. Mendi was carrying men from the South African Native Labour Corps to France and sank in 1917 with huge loss of life. Most of the men drowned.The Mendi has become the symbol for commemoration of their service #navalhistory

Thanks to @lloydsregister.bsky.social and @arcticfrontiers.bsky.social conference for a trip to the #Tirpitz from an ROV onshore. Site is being used to study the disintegration of metal wrecks by #scottpolarinstitute and #UIT university in #Tromso

The carving off #HMSEagle off the wall and almost ready for travel to #Poole. The wrecking of the Eagle off the Scillies in 1707 led to the discovery of longitude after a long competition set by the Admiralty @bournemouthuni.bsky.social

We are excited to be part of the #arcticfrontiers conference this week in #Tromso #ppw covering all things wrecks, pollution and protection. Thank you to @lloydsregister.bsky.social

Good to host @dominicjonesuk.bsky.social and Dr Ellie Schofield and @mastarchaeology.bsky.social trustee Dominic Tweddle to our #ArchaeologicalCentre in #Poole yesterday. Also a sneak preview of some early artefacts that have made their way from #Charlestown @bournemouthuni.bsky.social

Packing up @bournemouthuni.bsky.social in #Charlestown Here drugs found on the site of #HMSAnson part of a large medical chest. Also packaging from the pill jar still intact. Controversial wrecking in 1807 led to the Burial of the Drowned Person Act.

A ornate brass deck plate from SS Mohegan now back at our #Archaeologicalcentre in #Poole from #Charlestown. She went down off the Lizard after hitting the Manacles in October 1898. 106 out of 157 died. St Keverne church on the Lizard holds a mass grave.

Joiner Lee Hall helps @Bournemouth university graduate Holly Hughes pack a treasure barrel from the #AdmiralGardner to bring back to our Archaeological Centre in #Poole for conservation

Conservation Technician Holly Hughes packs the Medieval Hackbut from the Brighton Marina site in #Charlestown @bournemouthuni.bsky.social to bring home to its new home at our #ArchaeologicalCentre in #Poole

An curious story here: the area covers 12 miles long covering three ancient sunken cities with the modern city of Alexandria right on its doorstep so very vulnerable to looting. Something fishy? nypost.com/2024/12/25/w...

Are you a #codebreaker? Can you solve this nautical puzzle before Christmas? Click on this link to challenge yourselves! #GCHQ need not apply! puzzel.org/en/cryptogra...

It’s was a great pleasure to meet @bournemouthuni.bsky.social vice chancellor Alison Honour and @jessicatoale.bsky.social with whom I look forward to diving with in 2025!

It was great to welcome Bournemouth West MP @jessicatoale.bsky.social to our www.thisismast.org/projects/con... in #Poole with @bournemouthuni.bsky.social vice chancellor professor Alison Honor

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