Twelvemile Island Ship Graveyard Historical and Archaeological District
Twelvemile Island Ship Graveyard Historical and Archaeological District | |
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| Location | Mobile River, Alabama |
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| Coordinates | 30°47′30″N 87°59′32″W / 30.79167°N 87.99222°W |
| NRHP reference No. | 100007203[1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 6, 2021 |
The Twelvemile Island Ship Graveyard Historical and Archaeological District is a shipwreck site in the Mobile River near Mobile, Alabama. The collection of five wrecks – one large, potentially three-masted ship; three barges; and an unidentified ship – are part of a ship graveyard.[2]
The main wreck was discovered in January 2018 by journalist Ben Raines during an extreme low tide.[3] Believing the wreck to be that of the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to arrive in the United States, an archaeological survey was performed on March 1–4, 2018.[2] The wreck was determined not to be the Clotilda, as it was longer (approximately 158 feet (48 m) long, compared to the Clotilda's 86 feet (26 m)) and constructed of pine rather than oak.[4] A later survey determined the ship to be constructed of Douglas fir, suggesting it was built on the Pacific coast and sailed around South America to Mobile.[5]
The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System – (#100007203)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013. Retrieved March 5, 2024.
- ^ a b "Report on a Mid-to-Late Nineteenth-Century Wooden Shipwreck in the East Channel of the Mobile River Suggested as a Candidate for the 1855 Schooner Clotilda, Baldwin County, Alabama" (PDF). Alabama Historical Commission. July 2018. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 28, 2023. Retrieved March 5, 2024.
- ^ Raines, Ben (March 5, 2018). "Wreck found in Delta not the Clotilda, the last American slave ship". AL.com. Archived from the original on August 30, 2023. Retrieved March 5, 2024.
- ^ "Twelvemile Island Shipwreck". National Park Service. Archived from the original on October 2, 2023. Retrieved March 5, 2024.
- ^ Raines, Ben (July 17, 2018). "Clotilda search funded by Nat Geo finds several new wrecks". AL.com. Archived from the original on May 13, 2021. Retrieved March 5, 2024.
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