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SUMMARY
An underwater archaeological investigation was undertaken in July 1993 near the island
Flatey in Breiðafjörður in Western Iceland by the National Museum of Iceland. The exact site
is inside a bay on a tiny island, Hafnarey. The island was originally a crater, and lies just off
the north shore of Flatey, close to the village on that island. This was the first investigation of
its kind to be undertaken in Iceland, and was on a very modest scale.
The main object of the investigation was the wreck of a 17th century Dutch merchant ship
named Mclckmeyt, which had been leased by a Danish merchant to use in trade with Iceland.
When the ship was ready to sail from Iceland 1659 a storm broke and the ship was wrecked.
lt seems that a fire started in the ship when this happened, but was quickly extinguished,
when it sank.
A few contemporary sources, the most important being the annal called Ballarárannáll,
mention this event. They record that a Dutch ship was wrecked in the harbour, and that all
but one of the crew of 15 survived. The annal states that the crew stayed on Flatey the fol-
lowing winter and built a seaworthy ship from parts of the wreck. They sailed to Holland in
this ship the following summer. It is unlikely that this story is true in detail, because the keel
of Melckmeyt still lies on the bottom of the sea. The missing parts may equally well have been
used in buildings on the island.