Identification of Anse à la Barque's Shipwrecks (Guadeloupe FWI): Historical Research in the Service of Underwater Archaeology
Résumé
On 18 December 1809 under the pressure of an English fleet, two Napoleonic Period store-ships, corvettes de charge,
were sunk in Anse à la Barque on the west coast of Guadeloupe (FWI), south of the town of Bouillante. Underwater
archaeological excavations, took place between 2001 and 2008. these investigations
revealed that, in addition to those two shipwrecks, hulls of four different ships were also present on the seafloor. Two
of them have been identified as the French vessels Seine and Loire by comparing archival data to the archaeological
record. The presence of so many shipwrecks in a secondary mooring of the west coast of Guadeloupe is explained by its
topographical characteristics and its proximity to Basse-Terre.
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