SimonLakeSub
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I found this book in a second hand book store in New York city. "The Pepper Wreck" A Portuguese Indiaman at the Mouth of the Tagus River By Filipe Vieira DE Castro. (Texas A&M University Press, College Station) The Excavation of a seventeenth century Portuguese merchantman.
The book is about a Portuguese ship, Nossa Senhora dos Martires, That in 1606, put into Lisbon, laden with peppercorns, porcelain, and other products from Cochin. A large vessel for the time,the merchantman displaced twelve hundred tons and carried three to four masts The ship foundered during a storm in a northern channel of the Tagus River. The Pepper wreck also tells the story of the ship's excavation by crews working in cold water and fast currents between 1997 and 2000, four centuries after Nossa Senhora dos Martires went down.
Regards Simon....
The book is about a Portuguese ship, Nossa Senhora dos Martires, That in 1606, put into Lisbon, laden with peppercorns, porcelain, and other products from Cochin. A large vessel for the time,the merchantman displaced twelve hundred tons and carried three to four masts The ship foundered during a storm in a northern channel of the Tagus River. The Pepper wreck also tells the story of the ship's excavation by crews working in cold water and fast currents between 1997 and 2000, four centuries after Nossa Senhora dos Martires went down.
Regards Simon....
