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Mystery Ship Found off Alabama Coast

By Becky in Everything Else on Sep 20, 2008 at 10:17 pm


Shipwreck remains have intrigued me since the first time I watched the Goonies. In the aftermath of Hurricane Ike, the remains of a shipwreck have been recovered off the coast of Fort Morgan, Alabama.

From Discovery.com:

Archaeologists say the wreck could be that of a two-masted Civil War schooner that ran aground in 1862 or another ship from some 70 years later. The wreck had already been partially uncovered when Hurricane Camille cleared away sand in 1969. Researchers at the time identified it as the Monticello, a battleship that partially burned when it crashed trying to get past the U.S. Navy and into Mobile Bay during the Civil War.

Remains of Mystery Ship

Remains of Mystery Ship

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  1. Dorothy Winter
    Sep 21st, 2008 at 12:43 pm

    I want to comment on this, because no-one has yet, and I feel sorry for the ship. I think it is some kind of cosmic ultra-galleon from the future, that has run itself aground to teach us all some sort of lesson about love, and sand. Also, the ship is new Jesus.

  2. Sammy
    Sep 21st, 2008 at 1:55 pm

    Was I the only one that read this and the first thought I had was "Alabama has a coast?"

    Cool ship though! I wonder if theyre going to dig it up all the way

  3. ted
    Sep 21st, 2008 at 4:27 pm

    I love the precision of the dating. It's either 1862 or some other ship 70 years later.

  4. The Slapster
    Sep 21st, 2008 at 9:19 pm

    Can't seem to login, but what the HELL? Who let all the zealots of of the loony bin today? A simple story about a ship being discovered turned into a pointless religious blathering in just 4 posts? Good going, nutjobs. Keep your senseless jabbering to yourselves, please.

  5. carolina d'armoire
    Sep 22nd, 2008 at 5:50 am

    Yes Dorothy. I 'm glad to read this new, cause there's a prevision to Alabama and south hemisphere, that says a mother-spaceship is going to be visible in Alabama on 14 october..... Great!

  6. b°b
    Sep 22nd, 2008 at 7:26 am

    The Slapster's comment is so stunningly out of place here that I peed py pants lauging. It is completely ontopic almost everywhere else though, sadly.

  7. Jon Anderson
    Sep 22nd, 2008 at 8:47 am

    His comment looks out of place because the post before it got deleted. I do love how it makes the thread sound now though!

  8. Dorothy Winter
    Sep 22nd, 2008 at 1:12 pm

    I have a very narrow beam of zealotry, that only points at stories about ships. I thought I was being funny, but no. Don't mean to rock the boat, like that crazy long haired dude with the wild ideas about love, again sorry Becky.

  9. b°b
    Sep 22nd, 2008 at 1:15 pm

    That comment should be made more, especially when no-one has played the religion-card yet.

  10. DOJ
    Sep 22nd, 2008 at 4:57 pm

    but they already found it back in the summer of '69...

    @Dorothy - that sounds like a Jack Handy

  11. Dorothy Winter
    Sep 23rd, 2008 at 5:52 am

    DOJ: God bless you for saying that. Literally.

  12. Spencer
    Aug 13th, 2009 at 10:19 am

    Dorothy, how insightful! Is that really you? OMG, I mean… gosh it has been a long time.

    I’d love to get together for a green tea and a philosophical conversation some time, your buyin, K?

    I am also a connoisseur of vintage watercraft and I must agree… This ship is definitely either from 1862 or 1932!

    Spencer

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