Archaeology Underwater: The NAS Guide to Principles and Practice

Plate 2.

Forerunner to underwater archaeology: in the nineteenth century the Deane brothers worked as ‘submarine engineers’ in and aroun

d Portsmouth, UK.

In this lithograph, Charles Deane is depicted in 1832 wearing his newly invented ‘diving apparatus’. He is removing one of the

bowsprit hoops from HMS

Royal

George

(1782) in approximately 18 m (60 ft) of water in the Solent, UK. (Reproduced by kind permission of Portsmouth Museums and Recor

ds Service)

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