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USS Hatteras: Site Monitoring and Mapping The following pages are reproduced from the Underwater Archaeology Proceedings from the Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Washington, D.C., January 1995. 82 J. BARTO ARNOLD 111 that a lightly-constructed merchant vessel could RICHARD J. ANUSKIEWICZ no longer be expected to stand up to a purpose­ built, heavily constructed, man-of-war (Keegan USS Hatteras: Site Monitoring 1989:97-99). Nevertheless, the Navy acquired many commercial vessels for Union service dur­ and Mapping ing the Civil War. The West Gulf Blockading Squadron, of which USS Hatteras was a part, Introduction-Requiem for a Featherweight was mostly composed of such ships. This paper reports a program to monitor the Hatteras wreck "Under no circumstances... can a steam vessel, site and map the remains visible above the bot­ built expressly for the transportation of freight or tom (Figure I). The report also describes the passengers, be made, in any manner, equal in ship, its history, wreck site, site history, and ar­ convenience or efficiency to a vessel originally tifacts. intended for war purposes." Perry was absolutely right in the quote above (Howarth 1991: 186), The Ship-Physical Description and the quick disposal of USS Hatteras by CSS Alabama on 11 January 1863 off Galveston was Harlan and Hollingsworth of Wilmington, a textbook example. For centuries it was com­ Delaware, built a sidewheel steamer called St. mon to convert merchantmen for naval service in Mary; on 25 September 1861 the Navy acquired time of war. However, by the mid-19th century, the 1,126-ton iron-hulled ship from the builders offensive armaments had developed to the point at a cost of $110,000 (Wilbur 1927:100). Fitted r .. }'. ', • I •• •• I_: l: ' <t N \\ Bow 0 10 FT FIGURE 1. Preliminary site plan of the USS Hatteraswreck .• 83 out at the Philadelphia Navy Yard and named ship and some parts of the steam engine rise USS Hatteras, its measurements were 210 ft. in partially above the sand bottom. The only other length, 34 ft. in beam, 18 ft. in draft, and an 8­ remains showing above the bottom in 1992 and knot speed. The third-rate warship had a three­ 1993 were a very small section of encrusted iron masted schooner rig and a condensing, walking­ near the bow which was tentatively identified on beam engine developing 500 horsepower whose the assumption that it was located forward of the cylinder diameter was 50 in. with a 132-in. paddlewheels and on its orientation and distance stroke (Silverstone 1989:73). The engine had a from other exposed remains. In 1994, the bow Sickell's cutoff. The boiler had the flues wreckage was buried. mounted below and tubes above (Wilbur 1927: Site mapping and monitoring were conducted 100). Hatteras had a complement of 126 offic­ in 1992, 1993, and 1994 through a joint THC/ ers and men and was armed with four 32-pound­ MMS project under co-directors Barto Arnold ers of 27 hundredweight (short 32-pounders) and and Rick Anuskiewicz (Anuskiewicz and Arnold one 20-pounder rifle (Navy Department 1977: 1992; Arnold 1993). The 1993 fieldwork in­ 270). The 20-pounder rifle was not part of the cluded a detailed magnetometer survey to pro­ original suite of guns but was added 21 Novem­ vide a contour plot of the magnetic anomaly and ber 1861. The warship was commissioned in locate any scattered remains (Figures 2 and 3). October 1861 (Silverstone 1989:73). Remarkably little scatter was detected-only three small, isolated point sources. These anoma­ The Shipwreck Site lies could result from scattering by shrimp trawls, battle damage, or Hatteras' portside guns, The site is located about 32 km (20 mi.) which had been jettisoned to correct a list as she south of Galveston and about 8.7 km (14 mi.) was sinking. The magnetic signature with mul­ offshore; snagged shrimp nets had pointed to this tiple highs and lows was typical of a shipwreck. area, which otherwise could have been missed. A cooperative effort between the Texas Histori­ The Ship's History cal Commission (THC) and the Minerals Man­ agement Service (MMS), Gulf of Mexico OCS In fall 1862, Union forces captured Region, recorded new site coordinates with a Galveston. Earlier, the West Gulf Squadron had Trimble Navigation, Inc. Differential Global Po­ been running past Confederate forts and tempo­ sitioning System (DGPS) in 1993. The DGPS rarily capturing such towns as Corpus Christi system has an accuracy of one m. In 1994, as a and Indianola. Texas was a major cotton pro­ test of the DGPS system, the magnetometer was ducer, and it was important to the Confederacy not used to buoy the site prior to sending down to get that cotton past the blockade or down to the first dive team. Rather, navigating with the Matamoros, Mexico, by wagon. General Bank's same model Trimble DGPS system, the research Union army was to come to Galveston for a vessel anchored on the DGPS coordinates from thrust into Texas, but on New Year's Eve Gen­ 1993. The divers found and buoyed the site im­ eral Magruder's Confederate forces staged a sur­ mediately upon descent, and several hours were prise attack and recaptured the town and several saved in the process. Water depth at the site is hundred troops of the garrison. USS Harriet 17.6 m (58 ft.), and maximum relief above the La.ne was captured by cottonclads armed only bottom is ca. 1.2 m (4 ft.). The shipwreck site's with sharpshooters. USS Westfield went aground official number is 41GV68; the Texas Antiquities and was blown up to prevent capture. The pre­ Committee has designated it a State Archaeologi­ mature explosion of Westfield's magazine killed cal Landmark, and it is also listed on the Na­ Captain Renfrew, the ship's as well as the tional Register of Historic Places. squadron's commander (Fehrenbach 1968 and Little of the wreck is exposed above the Snyder 1938). This disaster set the tone of sand. Paddlewheel hubs on both sides of the Union frustration in assaults on Texas for the 84 v .925 -0 :;:; 0 _J .924 .923 .922 USS Hatteras 41GV68 .768 .767 .766 .765 .764 Longitude FIGURE 2. Contour plot of magnetometer data from USS Hatteras.One hundred gamma contours. (Surfer for Windows software provided by Golden Software.) rest of the war (Neyland 1993). "There was Blockading Squadron. The time in Florida in­ never to be a Union song called 'Marching cluded a highly successful raid on Cedar Keys Through Texas "' (Fehrenbach 1968:372). harbor, when the crew burned seven small At the same time, the famous raider CSS blockade runners loaded with turpentine and cot­ Alabama was lurking across the Gulf of Mexico ton. The raiders also burned the railroad termi­ preparing to attempt to catch General Bank's nal, several buildings, and flatcars and captured invasion force and destroy the transports. The half the small garrison and its commander. loss of Galveston changed Union plans. USS After 26 January 1862 when it arrived at Hatteras joined Farragut and his reinforcements Berwick, Louisiana, Hatteras had a successful to the remnants of the West Gulf Squadron off cruise and captured a number of blockade run­ Galveston on 6 January, just in time for an en­ ners in less than a year. Most of this action counter with Semmes' Alabama. occurred off Vermilion Bay, as the ships ran Under her first captain, Commander George either toward Havana or Sabine Pass (Navy F. Emmons, Hatteras began her Civil War career Department 1977). In November 1862, Com­ when she joined the South Atlantic Blockading mander Homer C. Blake took command as the Squadron at Key West, Florida, on 13 Novem­ second captain of Hatteras. ber 1861. She served off Apalachicola and Ce­ When Alabama sighted Galveston on 11 dar Keys, Florida, before transferring to the Gulf January 1863, it found not General Bank's trans­ 85 ports but a fleet of warships anchored offshore. is deep enough that scattering of the contents by The crew deduced that the Confederates had re­ wave action should not be significant. captured the town when they saw the fleet lob Treasure hunters discovered the wreck in the a shell that burst over the town. One of the mid-1970s and filed an admiralty suit in 1978 Union ships stood out to investigate the stranger. (U.S. District Court nd). The Navy won the law­ Semmes lured Hatteras away from the support suit since naval vessels always remain govern­ of her sisterships, and just after dark a sharp but ment property, and they are not available for brief battle took place (Semmes 1962). The re­ commercial salvage. As litigation proceeded to ports of this action by the two captains, ex-col­ the court of appeals and back, the Bureau of leagues in the pre-war Navy, appear in Arnold Land Management (BLM, from which the MMS and Hudson (1981). later emerged) sponsored two trips to the site USS Morning Light's log recorded heavy fir­ which yielded good remote-sensing data (Arnold ing to the southwest during the 6-8 p.m. watch. and Hudson 1981), and its location was firmly Morning Light was blockading Sabine Pass on fixed with microwave radar positioning. The the Texas-Louisiana border about 80 mi. from THC and the Institute for Nautical Archaeology the scene of the battle (National Archives 1863). at Texas A & M University participated in the The 13-minute battle took place at close BLM projects. During one of these trips archeo­ range, ending when a shell exploded in logical divers attempted to visit the wreck.
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