From the August 14th Wilmington (NC) Star-News Looking Back column.
AUGUST 2, 1962
Navy divers from Charleston, SC, began a ten-day effort to recover items from the sunken blockade-runner Modern Greece off Fort Fisher. This is part of a continuing effort to explore all known ships sunk off the Cape Fear River during the Civil War and to find new ones.
This is the 50th anniversary of that effort, and that effort was on the 100th anniversary of the ship's sinking in the first place.
I've seen drawings of Fort Fisher during the war that show sunken ships by the fort. This very likely was one of them.
The Modern Greece, the Ship That Rocked Maritime Conservation. --Old B-Runner
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