Much of the ship's cargo was salvaged in the weeks that followed, but, as it turned out in 1962, much remained.
Divers recovered thousands of artifacts and the ship became a training and experimental proving ground for underwater archaeology. Things learned on the Modern Greece (MG) were later used on the USS Monitor, H.L. Hunley and Blackbeard's flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, sunk in 1718 and rediscovered in the 1990s near Atlantic Beach, NC.
Mark Wilde-Ramsing and Chris Fonvielle are organizing a series of programs and activities to mark the MG's double anniversary this year.
In June, a public symposium will be held at the UNC-Wilmington campus and also a new exhibit on MG recovered artifacts will be unveiled at the Fort Fisher Museum in Kure Beach.
Fonvielle refers to the MG as "The Iconic Blockade-Runner" and would like to have a pavilion erected at the beach by Fort Fisher with panels to tell the ship's story.
That Modern Greece Ship. Gone, But Not Gone. --Old B-Runner
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