Ike helps uncover mystery vessel on Ala. coast
Friday, September 19, 2008 - 14:14
in Paleontology & Archaeology
FORT MORGAN, Ala. (AP) -- When the waves from Hurricane Ike receded, they left behind a mystery - a ragged shipwreck that archeologists say could be a two-masted Civil War schooner that ran aground in 1862 or another ship from some 70 years later. The wreck, about six miles from Fort Morgan, had already been partially uncovered when Hurricane Camille cleared away sand in 1969....