I am a scuba diver who got hooked on Maritime archaeology several years ago. Although I was a fan of wikipedia from first hearing of it, I got frustrated by the limited material on this topic, so started to contribute to the Archaeology project and it snowballed from there! Viv Hamilton contributor since 23 February 2006 (UTC)

New Project Surveying Twentieth Century History Pages

User:Viv Hamilton/Twentieth Century History

My significant contributions

Protected wrecks personal project - see below

• New article for Nautical Archaeology Society and researched its history
• Populated Underwater archaeology stub, populated water dredge stub and uploaded and added image.
• Editing Maritime archaeology
• New article on Archaeology of shipwrecks
• New articles for Keith Muckelroy, Joan du Plat Taylor and Honor Frost
• New Categories Category:Maritime archaeology, Category:Archaeology of shipwrecks, Category:Protected Wrecks of the United Kingdom
• Rewrote Cultural Resources Management splitting content to Cultural Heritage Management
• New Category and article Category:Ships preserved in museums and Ships preserved in museums; clarified Category:Museum ships
• SS Storaa expanded with information from court case.
• New template Template:Ship types - see bottom of page
• Protection of Military Remains Act 1986 reaches B class in peer review!
• Several stubs for PMR86 wrecks: Unterseeboot 714, HMS Loyalty (J217), HMS Loyalty(dab), HMS K17
• Ensured that articles for all PMR86 designated vessels state this, have a reference and are in the category for Category:Protected Wrecks of the United Kingdom
• New Page User:Viv Hamilton/Ship notability Guidelines
• New article Empire ship

Other majorish contributions

• Formatting of List of shipwrecks
• Merged Oceanic archaeology into Maritime archaeology
• 1911POV for River engineering
• Tidying categories and articles for project archaeology
• Added explanation to top of List of archaeological periods and wikified right column
• Merged to remove duplicate UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage

To Do List

Protection of Military Remains Act 1986

• Copy edit from Peer review
• Aviation archaeology
• DTS template for table so it can be date sorted
• template the SI2008 reference so all wreck articles can be easily updated at the next designation
• coordinates for all wrecks
• map of UK and map of world showing positions of wrecks
• (eventually) split the list and the article

General

• Protected wrecks personal project - see below
• Complete research for Keith Muckelroy
• Make sub-lists of list of shipwrecks
• Continue to expand Maritime archaeology to reflect breadth of subject
• Split Bronze age ships from Maritime archaeology
• Expand Archaeology of shipwrecks with more theory and examples
• Add pictures to Maritime archaeology and Archaeology of shipwrecks
• Complete Underwater archaeology article by adding additional external references and examples
• Create a new article for Honor Frost
• Create a new article for Underwater cultural heritage
• Create new articles for 3D survey and Underwater excavation
• Create new artcle for diver trail
• Add diving operations to commercial diving
• Categorise articles Category:Cultural heritage and Category:Ships preserved in museums, where appropriate
• Add refs to Dover bronze age boat
• Add additional ref for North Sea flood of 1953 (book)
• Break out UK shipwrecks from List of shipwrecks
• Edit and link abandoned shipwrecks act (US) - article from IJNA downloaded

Protected Wrecks Personal Project

Done

• New article on Protection of Wrecks Act, changed referencing, citation and notes to new format
• New Category - Category:Protected Wrecks of the United Kingdom
• New article on Protection of Military Remains Act
• New List - List of designations under the Protection of Wrecks Act
• New Stub for HMS H5
• New Stubs for HMS Assurance, HMS Pomone (1805), HMS Dartmouth, Holland 5
• New articles for protected wrecks: Hanover (ship), Salcombe Cannon Wreck, Seaton Carew Wreck, St Anthony (ship), Diamond (ship), Wheel Wreck, Swash Channel Wreck
• Edited existing articles for Rooswijk
• Edited article from stub for HMY Mary, HMS A1

To do

• Create full articles for all protected wrecks
• Ensure all maritime archaeology events are recorded in List of years in archaeology
• Ensure all articles are categorised as Category:Maritime archaeology or Category:Archaeology of shipwrecks

Temporary stuff for the above

User:Viv Hamilton/Work in progress

Here is the ((Ship types)) template