The Sea Hunters
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Jamestown
Large passenger steamer, seized by Confederates. Fought gallantly in Hampton Roads, Virginia, with the Merrimack. Sunk as obstruction at Drewry's Bluff in 1862.
C.S.S. Louisiana
Mammoth Confederate ironclad that carried sixteen guns.
Unfinished and able to fight only while moored along shore during the battle for New Orleans, she was blown up by her crew to prevent capture, 1862.
U.S.S. Varuna
Union Navy gunboat. Rammed three times by Confederate vessels during the battle for New Orleans. She was credited with sinking six enemy ships before being forced ashore and burned, 1862.
U.S.S. Commodore Jones
Union Navy side-wheel gunboat, formerly a New York ferryboat.
Destroyed by a very sophisticated Confederate two-thousand-pound electrical mine in the James River, 1864.
U.S.S. Phillipe
Union Navy gunboat that was shelled by the Confederate guns at Fort Morgan, set afire and sank in the entrance to Mobile Bay during Admiral Farragut's attack on the city, 1864.
C.S.S. Governor Moore
Confederate Navy gunboat, converted from a passenger steamer. Put up tough battle against Union fleet during battle for New Orleans.
Sixty-four of her crew died. Run aground and burned, Mississippi River, 1862.
C.S.S. Colonel Lovell
Confederate cotton-clad ram. Saw much action on the Mississippi River near Tennessee. Fought valiantly before being rammed and sunk during the battle for Memphis, 1862.
C.S.S. General Beauregard
Confederate side-wheel ram. Attacked Union flotilla during the battle for Memphis, and was heavily damaged before sinking along the west bank of the Mississippi River, 1862.
C.S.S. General Thompson
Confederate side-wheel ram. Fought up and down the Mississippi River along Tennessee before being burned and run aground during the battle for Memphis, 1862.
Platt Valley
Side-wheel steamer, snagged on wreck of General Beauregard and sank below Memphis, 1867.
Saint Patrick
Four-hundred-ton side-wheel steamer, burned and sank above Memphis in 1868.
C.S.S. Drewry
Confederate gunboat. Fought on James River for three years before being badly shot up and sunk by Union Army artillery fire in the middle of Trent's Reach, 1865.
C.S.S. Gaines
Confederate gunboat that fought a losing battle with Admiral Farragut's fleet during the battle of Mobile Bay. The Gaines was run aground behind Fort Morgan and burned, 1865.
Stonewall Jackson
Confederate blockade runner, formerly the British packet side-wheel steamer Leopard. Run aground on Isle of Palms, South Carolina, 1864.
Rattlesnake
Confederate blockade runner. Caught by Union blockading fleet while trying to enter Charleston Harbor off Breech Inlet with cargo of arms, and burned, 1863.
Raccoon
Confederate blockade runner. burned and sunk by Union gunboat outside Charleston Harbor while running out to sea with cargo of cotton, 1863.
Ruby
Confederate blockade runner that had many successful runs. Finally chased ashore at Folly Island, Charleston, and destroyed,
Norseman
Confederate blockade runner, small British screw steamer, run ashore off Isle of Palms, Charleston, 1865.
Ivanhoe
Confederate blockade runner. Caught by Union gunboats and destroyed near Fort Morgan at the entrance to Mobile Bay, Alabama, Foreign Ships Discovered and Surveyed
Waratah
Blue Anchor passenger liner that disappeared off the east coast of South Africa in 1911. Over two hundred passengers and crew were lost.
One of the great mysteries of the sea.
H.M.S. Pathfinder
British scout cruiser. Second warship to be sunk by a submarine and the first by a German U-boat. Torpedoed in the North Sea by the in August of 1914.
First German U-boat in history to sink an enemy ship. Also sank two battleships near Turkey in World War I. Foundered while under tow in North Sea, 1919.
German World War I submarine that sank the Cunard liner Lusitania.
Stranded on Jutland shore, Denmark, in 1916. Later blown up by the Danes in 1926.
H.M.S. Acteon
British fifty-gun frigate, stranded and burned during battle off Fort Moultrie, South Carolina, during the Revolutionary War, 1776.
H.M.S. Invincible
British battle cruiser. Blown up and sunk by German naval gunfire during the Battle of Jutland in the North Sea, May of 1916. Admiral Hood and 1,026 of his crew went down with the ship.
H.M.S. Indefatigable
British battle cruiser. Blown up by German naval gunfire and sunk during the battle of Jutland in the North Sea, 1916. Over one thousand men went to the bottom with her.
H.M.S. Defence
British heavy cruiser. Blown up and sunk with all hands during the Battle of Jutland, 1916.
H.M.S. Shark
British destroyer. Sunk by the German Imperial fleet during the Battle of Jutland, 1916.
H.M.S. Hawke
British cruiser sunk by the German submarine U-9, sixty miles off Scotland, October 1915; 348 of her crew were lost.
Wieshaden
German heavy cruiser burned and sank during the Battle of Jutland off the Denmark coast, 1916.
V-48
German destroyer, sank during the Battle of Jutland, 1916.
S-35
German destroyer, sank during the Battle of Jutland, 1916.
Butcher
German heavy cruiser, which was destroyed and sank during the Battle of Dogger Bank in the North Sea, 1916.
German submarine, sank after being rammed by the British cruiser Ariel, off Scotland in 1915.
German submarine, sank off Weymouth, England, after being depthcharged by a British gunboat, 1916.
Giiickauf
Prototype of the modern oil tanker. First to use all bulkheads to store oil. First to place engines in stern. Stranded on Fire Island, New York, 1893.
Vicksburg
British steam freighter stranded on the shore of Fire Island, New York, near Blue Point, during a storm in 1875.
Alexander Nevski
Russian steam frigate that ran aground on the east coast of Denmark near ThyborOn, 1868. The Russian crown prince was on board.
All were saved.
Arctic
British steamship stranded on the coast of Jutland, Dem-nark,
Kirkwall
British steamship that ran aground on the shore of Jutland, Denmark, 1874.
Odin
Very early Royal Swedish steamship, much copied in models, built in 1836. Ran ashore near ThyborOn, Denmark, in 1836.
Commonwealth
British freighter sunk by German U-boat during World War I in the North Sea off Flamborough Head, 1915.
Charing Cross
British freighter torpedoed by German U-boat off Flamborough Head during World War I in 1916.
Chicago
Very large ten-thousand-ton British freighter sunk by German U-boat off Flamborough Head in 1918.
Leopoldville
Belgian liner converted into troop transport during World War II.
Torpedoed by German U-boat on Christmas Eve, 1944, off Cherbourg, France. Over eight hundred American GIs died in the tragedy.
Additional Sites Surveyed
Merrimack Many magnetometer contacts around site where famous Confederate ironclad was blown up and destroyed off Craney Island, Portsmouth, Virginia, in 1862.
Great Stone Fleet
Large number of subbottom profile and magnetometer contacts where sixteen old New England whalers were scuttled to block channel leading into Charleston Harbor, 1861.
Galveston Graveyard of Ships
Ten to twelve ships that ran aground on old shoal outside of Galveston Bay between 1680 and 1880 and now lie buried in sand.
Swamp
Angel
Remains of parapet where famous eight-inch Parrott gun lobbed 150-pound projectiles into the city of Charleston nineteen hundred yards away, during 1863.
Index Torpedo Raft The remains of Union Navy antitorpedo raft used by monitor Weehawken during battle for Charleston, 1863, lies in a marsh at the north end of Morris Island, South Carolina.
Lost Locomotive of Kiowa Creek
Site where Kansas Pacific freight train was swept away by flood in 1876. It turned out the train was secretly recovered, repaired, and placed back in service under new number. What we discovered was a 120-year-old insurance scam.
Dirk Pitt Adventures by Clive Cussler
Shock Wave
Inca Gold
Sahara
Dragon
Treasure cyclops
Deep Six
Pacific Vortex
Night Probe!
Vixen 03
Raise the Titanic!
Iceberg
The Mediterranean Caper
The End