Hurricane Ike uncovers Civil War vessel

[One Country Boy]

These photos were e-mailed to me by a friend and Alabamian. He knows I eat this Civil War stuff up. This Civil War era ship was uncoverd by Hurricane Ike's surge along the Gulf Coast. The location is near or at Ft. Morgan, Alabama.

[One Country Boy]

Here's two more....

[AE5BI]

Wow!

[Radio]

That's pretty cool.

I saw that on the news and some guy was saying she was not a warship, but was a rum runner. Possibly they did not find any armaments in the wreckage?

Still, it's a bit of history and therefore someone should try to figure out who she really was, for sure, just so we would know.

There appears to be a "hitch" on the front. Or is that the mounting for the rudder and I'm looking at the wrong end??