Ship Believed to be the 1862 built Supply Ship for the US Army "Caroline Eddy" Revealed by Storm Erosion in Florida

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Researchers believe the vessel is the Caroline Eddy, a ship built during the Civil War and wrecked in 1880. “It was a sea like a mountain,” its captain recounted at the time.


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Chuck Meide, a maritime archaeologist, taking measurements of the shipwreck on Crescent Beach, in north Florida.Credit...Colleen Michele Jones/The St. Augustine Record, via Associated Press
By Marie Fazio
  • Nov. 28, 2020


ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Not long after the Caroline Eddy set sail in 1880 from Florida with cargo bound for up the coast, a powerful hurricane nearly tore it apart, casting the crew, clinging to the rigging, adrift for two days before the wreck washed ashore.
Over 140 years later, a couple walking along Crescent Beach this month noticed some wooden timbers and bolts sticking out of the sand in parallel formation after another tropical storm, Eta, battered the beach with high waves and powerful winds.
Maritime archaeologists believe it may be the bones of the Caroline Eddy, preserved for over a century by a blanket of sand.
“It was sitting here under a sand dune all this time, and all of a sudden there it was thanks to mother nature,” said Chuck Meide, a maritime archaeologist with the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program, based in St. Augustine, Fla.
Since the discovery, Mr. Meide and his team...
Rest of Article and more pics: 19th-Century Ship Is Revealed by Storm Erosion in Florida - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
 
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