From the March 9th Stars and Stripes "Artifacts recoveries on Civil War shipwreck in time for anniversary" by Jay Price.
There are hundreds of shipwrecks along the North Carolina coast, including Blackbeard's ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge (QAR) and the USS Monitor. They don't call it the graveyard of the Atlantic for nothing.
Work is being done on the QAR, but a Civil War blockade-runner which was excavated 50 years ago was in the news a couple months ago.
The Modern Greece lies in the surf close by Fort Fisher, North Carolina. Discovery of this previously "lost" ship in 1962 led to a huge trove of artifacts, a state law to protect the site and huge advances in preservation techniques.
And, there are about thirty more shipwrecks, most from the Civil War, along the coast near the Modern Greece.
And, the 150th anniversary of its sinking is also this year.
Now, This Is Something I Can Sink My Teeth Into. --Old B-Runner
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