Back on February 8th, I wrote about the blockade runner Arcadia being "rediscovered." I found a column about it by Murray Montgomery in the Lone Star Diary, who said surf fishing was very good by the Arcadia's wreck.
It was destroyed the USS Virginia of the Union Navy and was 211 feet long, 31 feet at the beam, and a side wheel steamer.
In the late 1960s, early 1970s, Wendell E. Pierce and Frank Hole examined the site and recovered artifacts that are now housed at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. It was at this time that the site was designated a state archaeological landmark.
As of 1984, the remains of a hand dug canal was still visible near San Luis Pass which was built to allow blockade runners to avoid the Union ships. This is not far from the wreck.
Now Where Did I Put That Ship? --Old B-R'er
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
