TY - BOOK ID - 78640511 TI - Coffins of the brave PY - 2014 SN - 1461958288 1623490766 9781461958284 9781623490768 1306461340 9781306461344 9781623490324 1623490324 PB - College Station DB - UniCat KW - Underwater archaeology KW - Shipwrecks KW - Naval architecture KW - Architecture, Naval KW - Marine architecture KW - Ships KW - Architecture KW - Shipbuilding KW - Archaeology, Submarine KW - Marine archaeology KW - Maritime archaeology KW - Nautical archaeology KW - Submarine archaeology KW - Archaeology KW - Underwater exploration KW - Marine archaeologists KW - History KW - Design and construction KW - Nautical influences KW - Great Britain. KW - United States. KW - U.S. Navy KW - England and Wales. KW - צי הבריטי KW - United States KW - Great Lakes (North America) KW - Great Lakes KW - Laurentian Great Lakes KW - Naval operations. KW - Antiquities. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78640511 AB - In Coffins of the Brave: Lake Shipwrecks of the War of 1812, archaeologist Kevin J. Crisman and his fellow contributors examine sixteen different examples of 1812-era naval and commercial shipbuilding. They range from four small prewar vessels to four 16- or 20-gun brigs, three warships of much greater size, a steamboat hull converted into an armed schooner, two gunboats, and two postwar schooners. Despite their differing degrees of preservation and archaeological study, each vessel reveals something about how its creators sought the best balance of strength, durability, capacity, ER -