'Deltebre I. The history of an excavation' is the title of the lecture given yesterday 22 October in the MARQ the director of the Centre d'Arqueologia Subaquàtica de Catalunya -CASC- and curator of the exhibition that the Alicante museum is currently hosting on this vessel, Gustau Vivar Lombarte. The event took place at 19:00 hours in the Assembly Hall of the Archaeological Museum of Alicante.
During his lecture, Vivar Lombarte addressed the CASC's historical interest in the state of conservation of the contemporary wreck that found by a fisherman in 2008 in the Ebro Delta.. A year later, the Catalan centre began its excavation. The work carried out to date has made it possible to discover that it is a military transport sunk in 1813 during the French War..
The ship was part of a allied convoy under British command which, coming from Alicante and retreating after attacking the city of Tarragona, ran aground at the mouth of the Ebro. The cargo it was carrying consisted of ammunition of different types and calibres and, due to the sedimentation of the Delta, has been preserved in very good conditionas well as the wreckage of the ship and associated objects to the crew.
The exhibition currently on display at MARQ until the next 11 January 2015 with the title "Deltebre I. A Shipwreck Story"The objects salvaged from this vesselincluding a bottle of Fondillón wine from the provincewhich remained intact and sealed.
