In the early 20th century there was a wreck dragged out of
Lake Champlain at Crown Point and put on "display" in the fort. It rotted
and crumbled until a grass fire consumed it. When will people learn it is
just better to leave sunken wrecks in the water where they can be carefully
studied, measured, managed, and preserved where they have already been preserved
for centuries??? There is of course urgency to do this underwater
archeology because of possible new threats such as zebra mussels. We just
don't have the technology yet to raise and preserve shipwrecks, however.
Even the Vasa in Sweden is deteriorating despite the best possible
preservation treatment. The raising of the Philadelphia by
Hagglund at Valcour Island was something of a miracle.
In a message dated 1/16/2013 9:28:33 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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You might also add to that list the "Trumbell" who, like the
Ticonderoga was covered by a wooden structure with a slate roof.
When the roof collapsed under the weight of a heavy snowstorm it
too was lost.