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Shipwreck may be from Yorktown siege
Discovered in York River
Updated: Monday, 16 Aug 2010, 7:47 AM EDT
Published : Monday, 16 Aug 2010, 7:47 AM EDT
YORK, Va. (WAVY) - The Virginia Department of Historic Resources is planning to survey previously undocumented shipwreck in the York River that may be from the Siege at Yorktown.
Officials say sonar has recorded ship remains that will be surveyed starting Monday. Circumstantial evidence strongly suggests the shipwreck is associated with the October 1781 siege that decided the Revolutionary War.
The site is close to the remains of the ship used by British Gen. Cornwallis.
Officials plan to map the wreckage and make efforts to confirm whether the ship was part of the British fleet at Yorktown.
More than three decades ago, the Department of Historic Resources conducted a multiyear research project near Yorktown that resulted in the location of nine shipwrecks associated with the Siege at Yorktown.
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