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Georgiana blockade runner, Isle of Palms

Wreck beach Source-confirmed findsRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles

Also reported: pins, sundries, munitions, medicines.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Unknown (Public domain).

Why this spot

1863 Confederate blockade runner

Scuttled and burned in March 1863 off Charleston; found by E. Lee Spence in 1965, who recovered boxes of pins and buttons; subject of SC's first salvage license (1967).View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

surf, current, poor visibility

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