March 14th Charleston (SC) Post and Courier article by Brian Hicks.
A much overdue underwater survey of Civil War objects in and around Charleston Harbor took place back in April.
Off the batter, a magnetometer picked up a blip. What was it? a crab trap, long-lost anchor, or perhaps a frame torpedo, one of the major objectives of this search.
James Spirek, deputy state underwater archaeologist is the leader and is assisted by the South Carolina Institute for Archaeology and Anthropology are mapping the harbor with help from a $28,000 National Park Service grant.
Many of the sites have been known for years and have been excavated, plundered by treasure hunters and explored by divers. Much of the effort has been closely using an elaborate map of the harbor that Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren, commander of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, had drawn up shortly after Charleston was captured in 1865.
March 14th, they were looking at the mouth of the Ashley River for frame torpedoes. It is known that frame torpedoes were located there, but no one knows what became of them. Perhaps, they are still there?
More to Come. --Old B-Runner
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
