Image: Archaeologists from East Carolina University recently documented four 18th-century shipwrecks along the Cape Fear River shoreline. (ECU Program in Maritime Studies)
La Fortuna, which attacked North Carolina port in King George’s War in 1748, now likely found by archaeologists
By Andrea Margolis
Archaeologists in North Carolina recently discovered four 18th-century shipwrecks – including the likely remains of a detonated enemy vessel.
East Carolina University announced the discovery on July 24. The ships were located this spring at Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson, in the state’s Cape Fear region.
Jeremy Borrelli, a staff archaeologist for ECU’s maritime studies program, told Fox News Digital the team recovered 63 wooden shipwreck timbers – 47 of which are believed to be part of La Fortuna, a Spanish privateer ship from Cuba.
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