[PSUBS-MAILIST] Another replica idea?

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

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The federal government will begin searching for the wreckage of its first
submarine, the U.S.S. Alligator, off the coast of North Carolina.  The
Alligator sank in 1863 near Cape Hatteras, NC.  See the complete details
from the Winston-Salem (NC) Journal below.

http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_
BasicArticle&cid=1031777119451


Thursday, August 5, 2004


NAVY TO SEARCH FOR SUNKEN CIVIL WAR SUBMARINE OFF N.C. COAST

Naval historians and archaeologists will put to sea this month to find
the remains of the U.S. Navy's first submarine off North Carolina.

The target of the search by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration and the Office of Naval Research is one of the most
innovative, least celebrated vessels of the Civil War: the
hand-crank-powered USS Alligator, which sank in a storm off Cape Hatteras
in 1863.

Discovery of the Alligator, a 47-foot-long iron vessel that resembled its
namesake, could shed new light on Civil War naval technology, an era of
innovation that has risen to prominence with the recent recovery of the
Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley and the turret of the Union ironclad
USS Monitor.

The Alligator was built for the Navy in 1861 in Philadelphia. On its
first mission in 1862, it proved useless against its intended target, a
bridge on Virginia's Appomattox River. The river was too shallow.

After spending a year in the Navy yard in Washington being refitted, the
Alligator sank off Cape Hatteras as it was being towed south for the
attack on Charleston Harbor in South Carolina.

Never tested in battle, the USS Alligator might have remained a footnote
to history had it not been for a chance discovery two years ago in a
North Carolina bookstore.

Certain that her husband would be interested in the magazine she had
found, Nancy Cohen showed him an article on "the North's only submarine."

Her husband, Rear Adm. Jay Cohen, a submariner and the chief of the
Office of Naval Research, ordered some historical research - and the
Alligator Project took on a life of its own.

Late this month, NOAA and Navy scientists will spend a week in the search
area. No one expects instant success.

"They're looking for a 47-foot boat at the bottom of a big ocean," said
James Christley, a naval historian and retired submariner assisting in
the research.


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