The September 5th Pensacola, Fl., papers reported that the oOysseys Shipwreck Treasures from the SS Republic opened at the Balwin County Heritage Museum in Elberta, Alabama. It was originally scheduled to open Labor Day, but Hurricane Gustav put a kabosh on that.
It includes video of the shipwreck which lies in 1,700 feet of water in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Georgia where it sank in an 1865 hurricane while carrying a huge treasure trove of $400,000 in gold and silver coins, the largest in Civil War era shipping.
There are also photos of the wreck, interactive exhibits, and a large number of the 51,000 coins and 14,000 artifacts recovered from it.
During the Civil War, it participated as a Union ship at the Battle of Mobile Bay as the USS Tennessee. It's wreck was located by Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc, in 2003.
Give me the Money. --Old B-Runner.
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
