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Research History Time Line Zea Harbour Project David Blackman Dragátsis and Dörpfeld A. Milchöfer Graser Zea Harbour Project David Blackman Dragátsis and Döerfeld A. Milchöfer Graser

View of ship shed ruins
In 1885, Dragátsis and Dörpfeld excavated remains of ten ship-sheds on land in the eastern part of the harbour.
According to Dragátsis , architectural remains of the ship-sheds could be seen in the water early in the morning, when the weather was calm, but in the archaeological report, he only provides the length of the slipway to the shoreline -- the 37.29 m which was used as a primary calculation for the overall length of the reconstruction of the trireme Olympias.

Dragátzes, I.,Εκθεσις περι τών έν Πειραιεϊ 'Aνακαφών, PAE 1885, p. 63-71, Πιν. 2, 3 (Athens 1885)