USS Peterhoff

From the May 24, 2020, Wilmington (NC) Star-News "Photos:  Past vessels along the Cape Fear River."

The captions were what appeared in the newspaper at the time.

Picture 44 of 83

USS Peterhoff  (Underwater map of the ship's remains).

The USS PETERHOFF was a Union blockading ship and the most likely ship for the next Heritage Dive Site.

John Morris, head of the North Carolina Underwater Archaeology Branch at Fort Fisher will be speaking June 30, 2018, from 3 pm to 4 pm at the Wrightsville Beach (N.C.) Museum.

Morris will be speaking about American Civil War  vessels lost in the area including a collection of artifacts from the blockade runner Modern Greece that participants can handle and inspect.

North Carolina is home to more Civil War shipwrecks than any other states.

--Old B-Runner