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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNearly 60 years after it disappeared, storied U.S. ship found in Atlantic
The wreck of a storied military ship that served in two World Wars, performed patrols in waters off Alaska for decades, and at one point was captained by the first Black man to command a U.S. government vessel has been found, the Coast Guard said Thursday.
A wreck thought to be the U.S. Revenue Cutter Bear, which sank in 1963 about 260 miles east of Boston as it was being towed to Philadelphia, where it was going to be converted into a floating restaurant, was located in 2019.
But it was only in August that a team of experts looking at the evidence came to the conclusion that they are reasonably certain that the wreck is indeed the Bear, officials of the Coast Guard and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said at a waterfront news conference in Boston.
At the time of the loss of Bear, it was already recognized as a historic ship, said Joe Hoyt, of the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries.
Read more: https://www.pilotonline.com/history/vp-nw-us-ship-bear-found-20211015-vvwsj27btzepternccnfbhn4qe-story.html
Rhiannon12866
(205,220 posts)TexasTowelie
(112,125 posts)I wonder if it might be salvageable.
PJMcK
(22,031 posts)60 years underwater. An older ship. The hull will be covered in sea growth. There may even be an artificial reef growing around the sunken ship.
And think of the expense to re-float it!
Most sunken vessels stay on the bottom.
cstanleytech
(26,283 posts)Goonch
(3,607 posts)hatrack
(59,583 posts)And that was back in 1884. Historic, indeed!
pillbug
(17 posts)As it was powered by both steam and sail, that is.