To: blam
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.
22 posted on
10/24/2003 4:41:00 PM PDT by
Rockpile
To: Rockpile
"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?
25 posted on
10/24/2003 5:14:55 PM PDT by
blam
To: Rockpile
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.
30 posted on
10/24/2003 9:39:48 PM PDT by
yhwhsman
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