The British brig Water Nymph or ... even an Englishman cannot take the liberty to deride a civil servant on German soil

Abstract

The wreck of a 19th-century merchantman was surveyed and partly excavated in the course of archaeological fieldwork conducted prior to planned beach restoration in Ahrenshoop on the Baltic coast in north-eastern Germany. Extensive archival research led to the identification of the wreck and provided interesting details on the life and loss of a typical merchant sailing-ship of the mid-19th century. © 2007 The Authors: Journal Compilation © 2007 The Nautical Archaeology Society.