Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Team Examining Gulf Shipwreck Finds Two Others-- Part 3: USS Hatteras Found

Thousands of items have been recovered from the LaBelle and are receiving an unusual freeze-drying treatment at Texas A&M.  next year these artifacts will become the centerpiece of the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin.

Earlier this year 3-D Imaging-to-Map techniques discovered the wreck of the the 210-foot long USS Hatteras of water in the Gulf of Mexico.  It was sunk in 1863, 20 miles off Galveston by the CSS Alabama.  The Hatteras is 57 feet down and it is believed that storms in the last several years have shifted sands and brought it out.

--DaCoot

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