From the March 29, 2020, NewsDay "Set of coordinates, determination, lead to shipwreck discovery" by Bill Bleyer.
It wasn't a storm that caused the 181-foot long sailing ship named the Adriatic to be sunk back 156 years ago, but a run-in with the Confederate raider CSS Tallahassee.
Now, with a lot of determination, a group of Long Island divers appear to have discovered the ship's final resting place, about thirty miles south of Montauk Point.
The six divers are shown holding artifacts from the ship, including an inkwell.
"Finding the wreck of the Adriatic is an amazing discovery," said Harrison Hunt, a former Nassau County museum supervisor and author of the 2015 Arcadia book "Long Island and the Civil War. Long Islanders don't usually think of the Civil War coming so close to their shore.
To offset the North's superiority in naval ships, the south relied on ironclads and commerce raiders. By far, the most famous one was the CSS Alabama. But the Tallahassee did pretty well in her short career.
--Old B-Runner
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