Browsing by Subject "ship"

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    • Arctic Steam and Sail: Reconstructing HMS Pioneer 
      Deckinga, Mara A (2016-08-26)
      In mid-nineteenth century Britain, the dramatic disappearance of Sir John Franklin and his men led to a large-scale search conducted throughout the Arctic by sailing ships and steamers. One such ship was HMS Pioneer (formerly ...
    • The Cairo Dahshur boats 
      Creasman, Pearce Paul (Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)
      Excavations conducted in A.D. 1894 and 1895 by French archaeologist Jean- Jacques de Morgan at the funerary complex of the ancient Egyptian Middle Kingdom pharaoh Senwosret III on the plain of Dahshur revealed some ...
    • A Parametric Model of the Portuguese Nau 
      Cook, Charles (2012-02-14)
      This interdisciplinary research project combines the fields of nautical archaeology and computer visualization in order to create an interactive virtual reconstruction of a Portuguese nau. Information about the shipbuilding ...
    • A Partitioning Approach for Parallel Simulation of AC-Radial Shipboard Power Systems 
      Uriarte, Fabian Marcel (2011-08-08)
      An approach to parallelize the simulation of AC-Radial Shipboard Power Systems (SPSs) using multicore computers is presented. Time domain simulations of SPSs are notoriously slow, due principally to the number of components, ...
    • A Quantitative Analysis of the Speed of Dutch and British Shipping, 1730-1850 
      Schwindinger, Patricia Helen (2018-08-27)
      The period 1730-1850 brought no major revolution in the design of wooden ships. Yet the origins of naval architecture and the beginnings of scientific understanding of hydrostatics and hydrodynamics can be traced to this ...
    • Re-Creating the Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald 
      Stewart, Kiara F; Derry, Jasmine; Lee, Yuan-Chi; Hammond, Lauren; Harris, Marisa
      Over the course of the school year, we intend to create a short film centered around the sinking of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald. Up until this point, there has been thorough research in the conditions surrounding the sinking ...
    • The Wondrous Ocean: Tales of the Headless, Dead, and the Deep From 16th and 17th Century Seafarers 
      Hastings, Garrett R (2021-06-24)
      The age of seafaring exploration was an era of discovery and fantastical beings. During the 16th and 17th centuries, many Europeans believed in luck, ghosts, foreign monsters, creatures of the deep, and devils. This folklore ...
    • Using Computer Vision Photogrammetry (Agisoft PhotoScan) to Record and Analyze Underwater Shipwreck Sites 
      Yamafune, Kotaro (2016-03-10)
      In 2010, a new off-the-shelf software for Computer Vision Photogrammetry, Agisoft PhotoScan, became available to nautical archeologists, and this technology has since become a popular method for recording underwater shipwreck ...
    • Western Empire: the deep water wreck of a mid-nineteenth century wooden sailing ship 
      Levin, Joshua Aaron (Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)
      This study of Western Empire is split into two distinct parts: (1) historical research of the life of the vessel, relying on primary documents; and (2) analysis of the deep water survey data. The first part concentrates ...