Since tomorrow is the 150th anniversary of the loss of the US Army gunboat Picket (or Pickett), I decided to see if there was any other information on it.
I am not familiar with the Army having gunboats as well.
I came across two articles from the Washington (NC) Daily News in the CircamEast website.
FROM THE SEPTEMBER 26, 1979 WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS.
The US Army gunboat Pickett is still reportedly at the bottom of the Tar River covered with silt and sand and there is a feasibility study to see if it can be raised. It is located west of the Washington City Bridge.
It was originally named either the Philadelphia or J.W. Winslow and was a river boat converted into a gunboat by the US Army.
The article suggests a boiler explosion caused the ship to sink. Some 500 artifacts have been recovered including rifles and cannonballs.
More to Come Tomorrow, --Old B-R'er
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