Continued from Wednesday's blog entry.
The ship is traditionally known as the General Beauregard or just Beauregard, named after the Confederate hero of Fort Sumter, Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard.
It is a well-known site as the shipwreck can be seen at low tide off the Southern Extension of Carolina Beach. (My grandparents had a beach cottage right in front of it before Hurricane Hazel in 1954. So, I know it well."
The wreck's steam machinery is intact with paddle-wheel shaft and hull remaining in place. Cooling tanks, grated cargo hatches, water tanks, a large rectangular aft boiler, bollards and a davit exist at the site.
Both bow and aft sections are broken, but removed from the wreck and are mostly covered with sand.
Smaller artifacts have been recovered, but no major salvage attempts have been made.
--Old B-Runner.
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