Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSDAdvisory Council on Underwater Archaeology Résumé : International audience On 18 December 1809 under the pressure of an English fleet, two Napoleonic Period store-ships, corvettes de charge,were sunk in Anse à la Barque on the west coast of Guadeloupe (FWI), south of the town of Bouillante. Underwaterarchaeological excavations, took place between 2001 and 2008. these investigationsrevealed that, in addition to those two shipwrecks, hulls of four different ships were also present on the seafloor. Twoof them have been identified as the French vessels Seine and Loire by comparing archival data to the archaeologicalrecord. The presence of so many shipwrecks in a secondary mooring of the west coast of Guadeloupe is explained by itstopographical characteristics and its proximity to Basse-Terre. ACUA Underwater Archaeology Proceedings 2010
Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSDAdvisory Council on Underwater Archaeology Publication Résumé : International audience This paper presents part of the results of historical research for a PhD thesis focusing on seafaring and maritime activityin Guadeloupe, French West Indies (FWI). Additionally, it discusses the possible identification of five shipwreck sitesthat appear to date to the 19th century: Anse à la Barque, Pointe-à-Pitre, Baie des Saintes, Sainte-Anne and Le Mouleshipwrecks. ACUA Underwater Archaeology Proceedings 2014