The March 9th Yahoo News, from AP, reports that contractors searching for debris from Hurricane Ike near Galveston, Texas, discovered via sonar scan the remains of what possibly is the blockade runner Carolina or Caroline, which was sunk in 1864 running out of the city with a load of cotton.
It was detected, pursued, and ran aground in shallow water between Galveston and San Luis Pass. Her crew set her afire to prevent the Union ships from salvaging. It was probably buried under sank until Hurricane Ike scoured the bottom.
Divers will investigate this spring or summer when the Gulf waters are more calm. The investigation has also found two previously-charted Civil War shipwrecks, the Will-o-the-Wisp and Arcadia.
The new blockade runner's wreck is not being revealed so that looters can't get at it.
I also wrote about the Arcadia Feb. 8 and 14th.
FOLLOW-UP
San Luis Pass is a strait at the southwest end of Galveston Island connecting West Bay with the Gulf of Mexico.
I looked up Carolina and Carolina blockade runners and discovered that a ship called the Caroline was built in 1859 and seized by Confederate at New Orleans in 1862 and turned into a blockade runner. On Oct. 29, 1862, it was captured while attempting to run the blockade at Mobile.
The US Navy bought it and recommissioned her the USS Arizona. On February 27, 1965, it was accidentally destroyed by fire. So, this isn't the one.
Always Great to Find Something Lost Like This. --B-Runner
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
