Deltebre I, Napoleonic Era Exhibition in Tarragona

From the 20th of march until the 4th of october 2015, an important exhibition of artifacts, retrieved from an english military transport ship, which sank off the coast of Catalonia during the napoleonic era, will be on display in the Archeology Museum of Tarragona.

The ship was returning to Alicante after General Sir John Murray's siege of Tarragona in 1813, in the fifth year of the Peninsular war, when a storm hit part of the convoy. In total 5 vessels were sunk at the mouth of the Ebro river.

The Magnum Bonum was carrying artillery and high ranking british Royal Artillery officers such as, Major John S Williamson, who were part of the Anglo-Sicilian force which operated on the east coast of Spain. 

Many items have been retrieved intact, including; boots, muskets, barrels, boxes, buttons, musket balls, projectiles, maritime tools and even bottles of Alicante Fondillón wine which are still drinkable.

I have had the honour to collaborate with the archeologists of the (CASC) in the search for original documents relating to the shipwrecks and will give a conference on the 29th of april at the museum, in spanish.

The exhibition as it was in Gerona