Ship's Bell from the Henrietta Marie

Description

Photo of archaeologically-recovered ship's bell, which is partially encrusted, but the name of the ship is still visible. The Henrietta Marie transported about 200 slaves from the Bight of Biafra to Jamaica in 1699-1700.

Source

David Moore, Site Report: Historical and Archaeological Investigation of the Shipwreck Henrietta Marie (Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society, 1997). Slide of photo, courtesy of David Moore, North Carolina Maritime Museum.

Creator

Moore, David

Date Created

1700

Language

English

Rights

Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.

Identifier

F016

Spatial Coverage

Atlantic

Item sets

Slave Ships & the Atlantic Crossing (Middle Passage)

Citation

"Ship's Bell from the Henrietta Marie", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed February 27, 2020, http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/2618
Photo of archaeologically-recovered ship's bell, which is partially encrusted, but the name of the ship is still visible. The Henrietta Marie transported about 200 slaves from the Bight of Biafra to Jamaica in 1699-1700.
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