Steamship of the Russian Society of Shipping and Trade “Vesta”: the Experience of Studying the 19th Century Underwater Cultural Heritage by Methods of Digital Marine Archaeology
Journal: OOO Zhurnal Voprosy Istorii
Year: 2021

In the publication, based on underwater archaeological research, as well as archival data, an analysis of the place of death of the steamship of the Russian Society of Shipping and Trade “Vesta”, which sank in 1887 near the Western coast of the Crimean Peninsula and now is an object of historical and cultural heritage, is carried out. Author analyzes the main pages of the history of the steamer, as well as reconstructs the events of its wrecked, describes the signs of the steamer and considers n