From June 2, 2011, Fox 10 TV.
Fathom Exploration was permitted to survey the Gulf waters off Fort Morgan at the entrance to Mobile Bay, Alabama, in 2004 and found a shipwreck. They brought up a 31-inch, 700 pound bronze bell that was too big for a ship's bell with an 1860 date on it.
On June 5, 1861, the British bark Amstel was running the blockade into Mobile to pick up cotton before Union ships arrived to blockade the port. It ran aground at Mobile Bar, now called Dixie Bar. A salvage vessel came, but Union ships arrived and captured the salvage vessel, the first naval action at Mobile.
The company has also recovered railroad axles and huge slabs of Pennsylvania stone. It is believed that the bell and stone were going to some building project in Alabama or Mississippi. The bell was displayed at Lulu's in Gulf Shores, Alabama, for a week.
That Sunday marked the 150th anniversary of the Amstel running aground.
Sometimes You Make It, Sometimes You .... --Old B-Runner
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