before they started work. Eventually the best map was found in 

 London, in the British Museum. The first stage of the work on the 

 site was an echo sounder survey by Captain P.V.H. Weems, who 

 worked from the launch Reef Diver. When he located Fort James 

 and Fort Carlisle, at either end of the town, it was then possible to 

 calculate the positions of other buildings. 



Link next fixed the Sea Diver by four anchors above the point 

 where he thought the king's warehouse should have been and 

 lashed a steel pontoon barge alongside. In the barge was a ten-inch 

 diameter air-lift to pump mud to the surface. The position was 

 worked for several days with the assistance of six U.S. Navy divers, 

 but only mud and gravel, broken bits of modern bottles, and china 

 came gushing out of the air-lift. Even when the Sea Diver was 

 moved to another position. Port Royal remained obstinately con- 

 cealed beneath its cloak of mud. 



At last, by the east wall of Fort James, the past was forced to 

 reveal its secrets. Wine bottles, clay pipes, bones, bits of coal, and 

 broken dishes came pouring to the surface in a steady stream. The 

 best finds, however, were those which the divers rescued from the 

 air-lift at the bottom. Among these were onion-shaped rum bottles 



The Sea Diver, the research ship owned 

 and used by Edwin Linl< when he uncovered 

 the remains of Port Royal, Jamaica. 



Sir l-ienry Ivlorgan. 



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