Blockade Runner Lelia-- Part 2: The Cargo May Be Well Preserved

The Daily Mail article was accompanied by several pictures

**  The first was a multi beam sonar image of the wreck as it is today.

**  A black and white illustration of the time showing the Lelia sinking and Liverpool Lifeboat No. 1.

**  Another picture of the wreck from a different angle.

**  Picture of a paddle wheel on the ship.

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Wreckage still remaining:  one of the paddle wheels,  the engine and boiler rooms,  less well-preserved cargo areas,  and a steam winch.

The deck and all the structures on it hasn't survived and a lot of the hull remains buried in the seabed so there is the potential for a well-preserved cargo of British manufactured munitions and machinery destined for the Confederacy.

--Old B-Runner