Portions of the vessel were disassembled to expose the sloop's bow construction, mast step, and framing patter. Archaeologists then reburied the remains under sediment and ballast stone. The vessel was a derelict at the time of its sinking. Nearly all artifacts associated with the ship were found broken and discarded within the ballast pile or hull structure. No evidence of the deck structure, bilge pumps, or mast survives in the archaeological record.
Numerous repairs suggest that the vessel saw long service as a merchant trader.
Exhaustive searches of historic documents at the Jamaican Archives in Spanish Town, Jamaica, and the National Library in Kingston failed to produce any records identifying the sloop. Regardless, contemporary documents at these locations provided relevant historic data relating to the use of sloops in maritime commerce during the later eighteenth century. Analysis of the Readers Point vessel and its artifact assemblage suggests that the sloop traded among the Caribbean islands and North American colonies. This study concentrates on the hull analysis of the first eighteenth-century vessel to be excavated in the West Indies.