What to do about Spitfire?

[Smithbrown]

What to do about Spitfire? https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/benedict-arnold-lake-champlain-shipwreck-gunboat-spitfire

 

[deltamann]

Maybe partner up with GB and have them fund the ongoing study and possible recovery of the vessel.

Its their history too!

 

[Smithbrown]

Who/What is GB?

 

[deltamann]

Who/What is GB?

Great Britan,

Benedict Arnold was one of us then one of them and ended up going to England after the Revolutionary war to live in obscurity there and as a traitor here.

 

[Smithbrown]

Then you mean UK- United Kingdom.

 

[deltamann]

Then you mean UK- United Kingdom.

GB-I am an old Anglophile....

 

[cuzcosquirrel]

They raised one of the continental gundalows back in the 1930's and it's at the Smithsonian on display. My great grandfather helped pay for the work and he was given a piece of wood. They had it made into the base of a picture frame. When with my family in 2010, we walked along the shoreline there and talked about the ships, where they attacked from and defended, and the outcome of the battle. I think Arnold's sister was one of my direct grandmothers. I have looked over the ground in Sleepy Hollow he snuck over to get aboard an English sloop moored in the Tappen Zee.