Team Examining a Gulf Shipwreck Find Two Others-- Part 1

From the July 26, 2013, Yahoo! News, AP by Michael Graczyk.

Marine archaeologists in the Gulf of Mexico were exploring a ship in deep water and discovered two other sunken vessels believed to have gone down in the early 19th century.

Not much is known about them.  They were discovered 170 miles southeast of Galveston, Texas, 4,363 feet deep (3/4 mile).  This is the deepest Gulf of mexico shipwrecks to systematically investigated by archaeologists.

In eight days, using remote control devices, they have recovered 60 artifacts.  Among them is china from Britain, ceramics from Mexico and a musket from Canada.

Two of the ships were carrying similar items and might have been privateers.  The third ship had hides and large bricks of tallow and may have been a prize ship seized by the privateers.

The three ships likely went down in the first two decades of the 1800s.

--Cooter