Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Another replica idea?

[Steven Mills <cirtemoeg@juno.com>]

"Secrets of the 'USS Alligator' "
Villeroi Documents
http://www.sanctuaries.noaa.gov/alligator/villdoc.html

Alligator Blueprints
http://www.sanctuaries.noaa.gov/alligator/blueprints.html

[ unfortunately, not a full set, more like diagrams ]

I have more refs in my files, but these should be good for starters.

--Steve


On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 11:20:46 +0200 MerlinSub@t-online.de (Carsten
Standfuss) writes:
> Seach the Archive file for - Alligator Project - 
> 
> I mentioned this wreck in 2000... ;-)
> 
> regards Carsten 
> 
> 
> Michael B Holt schrieb:
> > 
> > --------- Begin forwarded message ----------
> > 
> > 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%2FWS
J_
> > 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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