Report 1 - Conservation of ceramic firepot
Report 2 - Composite wood and iron artifacts - pole arms and partisans
Report 3 - Silicone oil and organic conservation
Report 4 - Conserving the human skeleton found aboard La Belle
Report 5 - Conservation of closed wood containers: a chest from La Belle
Report 6 - Conservation of the Fairfield Union field cannon
Report 7 - Conserving the hull of La Belle
Report 8 - A carpenter's tool from Port Royal, Jamaica
Report 10 - Site 8SJ3478, possibly the Industry: a British 18th-century shipwreck
Report 11 - Pass Cavallo project (Page currently down)
Report 12 - A chest from the Brother Jonathan shipwreck.
Conservation Research Laboratory Reports
Conserving the hull of the Belle
La Salle Shipwreck Project
Texas Historical Commission
PHOTO GALLERY 3: SEPTEMBER 1 - 11, 1998
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With the successful pouring of the bottom slab, workers begin adding the reinforcing steel rods up to the full 12 ft. height of the wall. |
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The reinforcing steel rods are interlocked to form a secure mesh inside the walls of the vat. |
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Once the reinforcing steel is in place, the forms for the wall are put in place and secured with braces in preparation for pouring the concrete. |
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Forms being installed inside the vat. |
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September 9, 1998. Pouring the concrete to form the walls of the vat. |
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Packing and vibrating the wall to make sure the concrete fills the forms properly. |
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September 11, 1998. The walls are poured just in time for the tropical depression Frances to arrive on the scene and start several days of rain. Still to be constructed are the four projecting pads coming off of the four pillars. The pads will support the four motorized gear boxes, which will lift the frame that will support the hull during assembly and conservation. |
C.F. JORDAN, INC. of College Station, Texas, is responsible for teh design and construction of the vat.
Citation Information:
- Donny L. Hamilton
- 1998, Conservation of the Hull of the Belle, Conservation Research Laboratory Research Report #7, Photo Gallery 3, World Wide Web, URL, http://nautarch.tamu.edu/crl/Report7/hull3.htm, Nautical Archaeology Program, Texas A&M University; La Salle Shipwreck Project, Texas
Historical Commission, Austin, Texas.
E-mail: dlhamilton@tamu.edu
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