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Cultural Resources Announces New Deputy State Archaeologist

September 25, 2012 – 5:00 pm

RALEIGH–The N.C. Department of Cultural Resources announces the hiring of John W. Morris III as deputy state archaeologist and head of the state’s Underwater Archaeology Branch at Kure Beach. Morris is a nautical archaeologist with more than 25 years of field experience. His undergraduate studies were at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where he was graduated with [...]

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Lake Waccamaw State Park to Dedicate Exhibit of Rare Whale Fossil

August 14, 2012 – 11:02 am

RALEIGH – Lake Waccamaw State Park will dedicate a new exhibit Aug. 24 created to display a rare, 2.75 million-year-old whale fossil discovered in the park’s bay lake in 2008. The public is invited to the 1 p.m. ceremony in the park’s visitor center. The fossil, which was pulled from a limestone outcropping in the [...]

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Students Discover Shipwreck Treasures in the Tanks

March 9, 2011 – 10:53 am

KURE BEACH – While their peers may be wiling away spring break on the sunny beaches of Key West or the Bahamas, 11 graduate students from East Carolina University (ECU) and two interns from UNC-Wilmington, are looking for treasure in murky tanks of crusty old objects.  They are examining artifacts from the shipwreck of Modern [...]

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Artifacts and Shipwreck Stories – Sword Handle, Reale Weights, A Pirate’s Window

December 14, 2010 – 1:23 pm

GREENVILLE – Stories from a pirate’s life continue to unfold as artifacts are recovered and conserved from the wreck of the presumed Queen Anne’s Revenge (QAR), Blackbeard’s flagship, off the North Carolina coast.  A media event at the QAR Conservation Lab at East Carolina University on Dec. 14 at noon previewed some of the objects.  [...]

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Saving Cannons with Electrolysis at Blackbeard Shipwreck Site

September 21, 2010 – 10:53 am

RALEIGH – Three hundred years on the ocean floor can be pretty rough on a body.  The Underwater Archaeology Branch (UAB) of the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources will dedicate its fall dive to treating some large bodies of iron in the Atlantic Ocean.  Researchers, from Sept. 22-Oct. 29, will be on wreck site of [...]

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Conservator to Speak to Youngsters at Onslow Libraries

July 14, 2010 – 3:57 pm

GREENVILLE – When conservator Wendy Welsh went diving on the shipwreck believed to the Queen Anne’s Revenge (QAR), Blackbeard’s flagship, she did not expect to find flecks of gold.  But there they were, in the sediments and concretions, the cement-like casings around objects at the wreck site. Welsh will share this and other details of [...]

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International Researchers Will Examine Remnants of Blackbeard Shipwreck

May 25, 2010 – 8:59 am

GREENVILLE – They have come from Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Australia, the United Kingdom and 10 other countries to Greenville, N.C., to focus on preserving materials left at shipwrecks sites.  The researchers will get a close-up look at efforts in Greenville while visiting the Queen Anne’s Revenge Shipwreck Project lab on Wednesday, May 26.  Those attending [...]

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Spoon Confirms Discovered Shipwreck of CSS Appomattox

November 9, 2009 – 10:52 am

KURE BEACH –The CSS Appomattox went down in flames in 1862 as her Confederate crew set her ablaze while fleeing Union forces.  A team of volunteer divers has located the Civil War shipwreck and its identity has been confirmed by the Underwater Archaeology Branch, N.C. Office of Archives and History in the North Carolina Department [...]

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Cannon, Ammo From Presumed Pirate Ship

October 29, 2008 – 11:07 am

ATLANTIC BEACH – After nearly 300 years resting on the ocean floor, an eight foot, 2,000 pound cannon will emerge from the Atlantic on Tuesday, Oct. 28. The big catch from the 2008 fall research dive at the wreck of the presumed Queen Anne’s Revenge (QAR), Blackbeard’s flagship, will be displayed for the media at [...]

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