Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Another replica idea?

[MerlinSub@t-online.de (Carsten Standfuss)]

Seach the Archive file for - Alligator Project - 

I mentioned this wreck in 2000... ;-)

regards Carsten 


Michael B Holt schrieb:
> 
> --------- Begin forwarded message ----------
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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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