Ike Uncovers Mystery Civil War-Era Shipwreck

FOXNews.com ^ | Friday, September 19, 2008 | Associated Press

[metmom]

FORT MORGAN, Ala. , Texas — When the waves from Hurricane Ike receded, they left behind a mystery — a ragged shipwreck that archeologists say could be a two-masted Civil War schooner that ran aground in 1862 or another ship from some 70 years later.

The wreck, about six miles from Fort Morgan, had already been partially uncovered when Hurricane Camille cleared away sand in 1969.

Researchers at the time identified it as the Monticello, a battleship that partially burned when it crashed trying to get past the U.S. Navy and into Mobile Bay during the Civil War.

[metmom]

ping

[RatsDawg]

thats kinda cool.

[mowowie]

Pretty cool.

[raybbr]

[Ilya Mourometz]

Cool.

[scrabblehack]

FORT MORGAN, Ala. , Texas

Wow, that’s some dateline. Let me go out on a limb an surmise that this story was written in the office and not at the actual site.

[rabidralph]

The Wreck of the Obama-Biden

[SunkenCiv]

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[LadyPilgrim]

Thanks....
Neat photo.

I love our coast, with those white sugar sands. ;-)

[rdl6989]

I hope they do move it and preserve it before another storm comes.

[blam]

"The wreck, about six miles from Fort Morgan, had already been partially uncovered when Hurricane Camille cleared away sand in 1969. "

Ft Morgan...is the location of the plaque commerating the Prince Madoc landing in 1170 AD.

Oh well...I guess they removed it. Sign below to have it returned:

Restoration of the Commemorative Welsh Prince Madog Plaque to Mobile Bay

[blam]

"I love our coast, with those white sugar sands. ;-)"

Shhhhh! There are too many Yankees here already.

[SunkenCiv]

Maybe it blew away.

[metmom]

Actually, I didn’t. Someone else must have added that.

[LadyPilgrim]

Yikes....I guess I spoke to loud!!!! ;-) Lord, deliver us...

Welllll.....the beaches are sanded out of white glass shards off all those shipwrecks.

How’s that?
Think they’ll swallow that and stay where they are? ;-\

[PAR35]

There’s been some really poorly written stuff from Fox News posted tonight. The editors must be on strike or incapcitated.

[stainlessbanner]

bttt

[Sherman Logan]

a battleship that partially burned when it crashed trying to get past the U.S. Navy

Battleship?

Crashed?

[Larry Lucido]

"What is that crowd of people doing"?

"Is anyone here a marine archeologist?!"