Four Sunken Blockade-Runners Along Upper Texas Coast

From the May 19, 2011, Dead Confederates Blog.

Andy Hall wrote about the wrecks of four blockade-runners along the upper Texas coast. Two, the Acadia and the Denbeigh have been positively identified. One is believed to be the Will o' the Wisp and the Caroline (or Carolina) may have been located.Some other sites also had dives on them.

From 1997 to 2003, Andy Hall was one of the lead investigators on the Denbeigh, the only one excavated as a formal archaeology project. The Denbeigh was built in the same Birkenhead yard as the Alabama and it was the second-most successful runner during the war.

It made eleven round-trip voyages between Havana and Mobile and Havana and Galveston before being lost on the inbound part of its 12th voyage in May 1865.

Aye, Blockade-Running Is the Life for Me. --Old B-R'er