Lead hull sheating of Greco-Roman ships

[Titus Martius]

AVETE!
I am presently searching for Greco-Roman ships construction including lead sheating. I have come to conclusion that lead sheating disappeared from Meditterranean with fall of the Western Roman Empire in cca 5th century, but latest available info on lead sheathed wreck comes from first century AD. Does anybody have information about lead sheating from first century till the end of first millenium?

[Eleatic Guest]

That's great. I am also looking for that, although I haven't got very far yet.

I found two references yet:

[quote] Students more knowledgeable about ships than I am might be able to work out what sizes of merchant ships correspond to the trireme and the penteres, allowing first for the trireme being of exceptionally light build and secondly for the lead sheathing of the hull that seems to have been or become usual in merchant ships (K. de Vries in G.F. Bass, A History of Seafaring 49).

Source: R. M. Cook, “Archaic Greek Trade: Three Conjectures 1. The Diolkos,â€

[Titus Martius]

Thanks, I know several wrecks from 5th century BC till 1st century AD including Kyrenia. But what I cannot find are ships sheated after 1st century AD till the end of first millenium.

[Tertius Mummius]

Did you check the NAVIS website?

http://www.rgzm.de/navis/home/frames.htm

It's a cumbersome website with an all but userfriendly design, but information aplenty. Regarding your research, you've probably checked that one.

One of the most obvious causes for the phenomenon you've described may be the lack of wrecks of large military vessels during that period, maybe caused by a decrease in overall numbers of seagoing warships (there are several small river-based vessels documented from Rhine or Danube).
With large-scale piracy eradicated and no other competetive seafaring nation present in the meditarranean by the end of 1st C., there was no more need to keep the big ships running. A few, and some for representation, would do the trick.
But I'm guessing wildly here; the large K. Viereck "Roman Fleet" book's safely out of reach at the moment.

[Eleatic Guest]

Thanks, I know several wrecks from 5th century BC till 1st century AD including Kyrenia.

Could you provide your references?

[Titus Martius]

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Did you check the NAVIS website?

http://www.rgzm.de/navis/home/frames.htm

It's a cumbersome website with an all but userfriendly design, but information aplenty. Regarding your research, you've probably checked that one.

One of the most obvious causes for the phenomenon you've described may be the lack of wrecks of large military vessels during that period, maybe caused by a decrease in overall numbers of seagoing warships (there are several small river-based vessels documented from Rhine or Danube).
With large-scale piracy eradicated and no other competetive seafaring nation present in the meditarranean by the end of 1st C., there was no more need to keep the big ships running. A few, and some for representation, would do the trick.
But I'm guessing wildly here; the large K. Viereck "Roman Fleet" book's safely out of reach at the moment.

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SALVE TERTIE!
Yes I know NAVIS website and I've searched through internet such a pages like Wrecks & shipfinds Worldwide and many others using names of particular wrecks.

I am not only looking for warships but for any ship with lead sheating after 1st century.

[Tertius Mummius]

Hm, interesting ... Konrad Viereck doesn't mention metal sheating for civilian ships at all, at least I haven't found anything.
I'm sorry I couldn't help you.