[Rockpile]

blam, don't you think that this vessel must have sunk in a river estuary not on the open coast--in spite of how this story reads. That's a lot of accumulated silt.

I think Clive Cussler found an 1860s riverboat remains in a farmer's field along the Mississippi.

[blam]

"I think Clive Cussler found an 1860s riverboat remains in a farmer's field along the Mississippi."

I think I read about that. Something is wrong with this story though...they say it was plowed up by farmers and that it was 160 feet underground?

[yhwhsman]

There was one fund in a farmers field in Iowa. For years he had planted around a '50 gal drum' in his field. One day he tried to pull it out, started digging, and it kept going down.

Was a river boat sailing up the Missouri, it sank and still had all it's cargo intact. You can actually still see the boat, near the NE border.