Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks

摘要

In recent years the discovery, raising and salvaging of Civil War-era shipwrecks has caught the public's imagination; especially noted are the treasure ship USS Republic, discovered one hundred miles southeast of Savannah, Georgia, in July 2003, a former warship commissioned by the Confederacy as the Tennessee and then captured by the Union and renamed first the USS Mobile and then later the USS Tennessee.