[PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: Replicas suitable for Arkansas

[Michael B Holt <tlohm@juno.com>]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 13:27:44 -0600 "Mark Steed"
<plutomark@mail.astate.edu> writes:
>
>Michael: Very interesting-I am not familiar with the Louisiana boat. 

No one else knows much about it.  Just how big it is, and where
it's been since it was found in about 1880.

>They are really the perfect repository though for such a craft. I 
>won't go into in American Civil War history on the Mississippi now, 
>but Louisiana has got it all. The famous gunboat CSS Arkansas is under 
>a levee there. I think Cussler found it. 

See "Sea Hunters," page 121.

> I am leaving for New Orleans 
>this Friday and be gone till early next week. More business than 
>pleasure but I will try and take some time to look into more of this. 
>At least get more information. Say you got drawings?

I have the drawings done by an intern a few years ago.  The
curator, Greg Lambousy, said they were going to enter the
boat and record the interior, but I've not heard any more 
about that.

> I am going to the 
>National D-Day Museum. I'll report on any "treasures" when I return. 

Well .....  two X-Craft were there, and, of course, Marders, Negers,
Bibers and Seehunds.  



Mike Holt


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