City Place Schooner

01/23/2020

Hi everyone! Thanks for sticking with us as we complete our analysis of the CityPlace schooner. Check out the latest edition of The Fife and Drum for a reconstructed version of the vessel along with an explanation of how the reconstruction was prepared based off of the information collected during our field season.

05/08/2019

Howdy Everyone! Check out our article in the INA Quarterly!

10/03/2018

The rest of our photogrammetry is complete! Check out the link below to see models of some of the pieces that were found disarticulated from the wreck, including the stem and sternpost

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08/23/2018

All that computer processing finally paid off! A photogrammetric model of the with its ceiling planking removed is now available. Check it out at the link below:

This is a model of the 19th-century schooner remains located at the Fort York National Historic Site in Toronto. The vessel was discovered during the construction of the City Place neighborhood in 2015 and is the subject of an archaeological study by scholars from the Nautical Archaeology Program at...

08/03/2018

Things may seem quiet, but we’re back in Texas working hard to process all of the data that we collected this summer. We are currently testing out the new laptops in TAMU’s Analytical Archaeology Lab, running photogrammetry software on all 5 at once. We will be posting the 3D models as they finish processing, so stay tuned!

06/30/2018

Over the next few months, Julia will be working hard putting together all of the crew's notes into her Master's thesis, expected to be complete by this time next year. This will be a familiar sight for the next little while!

06/29/2018

After a fantastic reception last Thursday night at Fort York National Historic Site, the crew celebrated their last night together with a campfire and s'mores!

06/24/2018

The had a fantastic evening Thursday night as Fort York National Historic Site and the Friends of Fort York hosted a reception with short presentations from Dave Robertson (ASI), Richard Gerrard (Fort York), and Julia Herbst and Carolyn Kennedy (Texas A&M nautical archaeology team). We are so grateful to everyone who showed up to learn more about this exciting project, and would like to give a big thank you to our sponsors and hosts, Friends of Fort York, Fort York National Historic Site, the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, the City of Toronto, and Texas A&M University.

For more questions on this project, please email [email protected].

06/20/2018

You're all cordially invited to join us wreck-side tomorrow for an informal meet and greet and a short presentation by Julia Herbst and Carolyn Kennedy.

06/20/2018

Julia took advantage of the cloud cover today to do another round of photos for a photogrammetry model of the wreck with it's ceiling planking removed and bilge space cleaned out. This way we will be able to see the outer hull planking through the gaps in the frames, as well as the fastener patterns on top of the frames.

06/20/2018

Nicole is working on where Robin left off drawing in the starboard profile of the keel and keelson. We're working at a 1:12 scale, so the 50-foot will be 50 inches long on paper.

Why are we using an imperial scale while working on this scientific endeavor (in Canada, no less)? Well the shipwrights who built our schooner would have used imperial, so any patterns they might have followed will be easier to detect by using the same system of measurements.

06/19/2018

Robin's been diligently photographing the 79 artifacts we found between the frames since yesterday. With photographs, sketches, and basic measurements of all of these small finds we can leave them in the trust of Fort York National Historic Site with no need to bring the physical artifacts out of the country.