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Carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) is a high-strength, lightweight material that is widely used in the
aerospace and automobile industries, and recently is also used in the shipbuilding field. However, the fibre
volume fraction of the…

As part of research on unmanned exploration equipment, we conducted a study related to the development of a
small autonomous surface vehicle for exploring underwater heritage in areas that are difficult to access by ship.
In order to develop an…

Between 1884 and 1924, a total of fourteen torpedo boats served in the naval defence of Australia and New Zealand. Australasia’s colonial governments purchased these vessels as a consequence of fears of seaborne invasion by Imperial Russia and…

A gradual and unremitting decrease in the level of the sand forming the seabed in which the wreck of the James Matthews (1841) lies buried (located in Cockburn Sound, Western Australia) became a cause for concern as progressive deterioration of the…

This paper attempts to portray maritime trade between Gujarat and Mesopotamia by examining cultural
materials during the third millennium BC found in archaeological sites of Indus Valley culture. The early
maritime history of the subcontinent…

Over the past 4000 years several cultural groups have utilized the island of Saipan in the archipelago now known as the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) for a variety of purposes including settlement, trade, provisioning and as a…