Thursday 2 June 2016

Archaeologists Produce 3-D Models of Shipwrecks

Scotland shipwreck 3DAccording to a report from BBC News, archaeologists have used 3-D printing technology to produce models of two wrecks that lie in waters off the UK. One wreck sits near drumbeg and dates to the seventeenth or early eighteenth century. It may be the Crowned Raven, a Dutch trading vessel that sank in the bay in 1690 or 1691 while route from the Baltic Sea to Portugal. The other wreck is the HMHS Angila, a World War I hospital ship that was lost off in 1915 after striking a German mine.  Experts from Wessex Archaeology used a range of imaging techniques as well as historical a resources to produce the models of the wrecks.

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