Civil War naval clashes uncovered at Bayport...

[jeff k]

http://www.tampabay.com/news/military/article987389.ece

 

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[ballbuster]

Thanks for the link Jeff. You never know whats in your own back yard. For years I fished out of Chestnut Neck area in South Jersey never knowing the pile of rock we had to avoid on each trip were ballast rock from a British war ship burned to the waterline durning the battle of Chestnut Neck.

 

[Salvor6]

Thanks Jeff. Thats right in my backyard. I need to check it out before the state turns it into an archaeological preserve.

 

[Blacksheep]

Found this today on liveleak, not sure if it will play or not.
(This is posted as a link but converted here for unknown reasons)

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=36e_1238239896

 

[ivan salis]

yep the headline should read ---- another area bites the dust for hunting by private folks **archie degree folks only need apply to look at stuff.

 

[FISHEYE]

Matt mattson(in the above video) knows where alot of wrecks are on the west coast.The state wouldnt give him permits on any of them so he made the sites public on his website.open source wrecks,i like that

 

[ivan salis]

hell the state is robbing him --- he in good faith gives over the cords to obtain permits --the state refuses to issue them (sound familar?) ---now years later --- the state itself uses the info he was forced to provide in his permit app --to find and "discover" his wrecks claiming them for themselves --thus robbing him of his claim of find and salvage rights -and set up a "historic / aquatic preserve area" to stop any future "private" finds---( I say let them do all the work bringing it up and restoring it and then sue them for "ownership" of it . --- I say use the legal issue of " restraint of trade" for failure to issue permits so long as you met the basic requirements to be issued one )---with the states failure to issue any new permits in many years it should be fairly easy to show their "just say NO attiude"

 

[littleneckhalfshell]

Ballbuster wrote: "Thanks for the link Jeff. You never know whats in your own back yard. For years I fished out of Chestnut Neck area in South Jersey never knowing the pile of rock we had to avoid on each trip were ballast rock from a British war ship burned to the waterline durning the battle of Chestnut Neck."

Hey, I have always wondered where that was, and if anything was still there.
where is that pile of rocks? I could never figure out what sand bar they were talking about in the story of the burning of Chestnut Neck, and always wondered if it was one of the ones I clammed on. I have clammed down there for 22 years. We usually camp over at Bass River State campground outside of Tuckerton NJ. Some times we would launch out of the end of a little road off of the Garden State Parkway where the Bass River empties out into the Mullica. Used to be a boat yard there, the rails still go down into the water and there is a keel there from some old boat that must have floated in from some storm.

 

[ballbuster]

The ballast pile is south of Chestnut Neck boat yard on the Mullica. There is a row of homes on the right side going out the river. The rocks are in front of the third house from the end where the river turns to the left for the bay. Keep in mind it is a historic site so no diving or MD,ing permitted.

Jeff,

Sorry for jumping this thread. If more information needed please PM or e-mail.


Jim