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The Mansfield Cut Underwater Archeological District is an 18.31-acre (74,100 m 2) area located near the city of Port Mansfield, Texas, United States, in the waters off Kenedy County and Willacy County, Texas.
The Texan brig Archer was a two-masted brig of the Second Texas Navy from 1842-1846. She was the sister ship of the Wharton . Transferred to the United States Navy in 1846, she was sold for $450.
Port Mansfield Channel or Mansfield Cut is an artificial waterway encompassing the Laguna Madre positioned at the 97th meridian west on the earth's longest barrier island known as Padre Island. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] During Post–World War II , the tidal inlet was dredged as a private channel differentiating North Padre Island better known as Padre ...
This year, during an "exceptional drought" in East Texas, the river is low again, and a man discovered the last resting place of World War I wooden-hulled ships in the low water. Why was Milner ...
San Esteban was a Spanish cargo ship that was wrecked in a storm in the Gulf of Mexico on what is now the Padre Island National Seashore in southern Texas on 29 April 1554. San Esteban was one of a flotilla of four ships carrying treasure from New Spain (Mexico) to Cuba. Three were wrecked in the storm, including San Esteban. Many of the three ...
The Texan brig Wharton was a two-masted brig of the Second Texas Navy from 1839 to 1846. She was the sister ship of the Archer.Accompanying the Texas flagship, Austin, she defeated a larger force of Mexican Navy steamships in the Naval Battle of Campeche in May 1843.
Even in the decades after World War I, putting ships out to pasture on the Neches was common practice, the man said. "You will see old sunken barges that 50, 60 years were parked out there, and ...
The Texas Navy, officially the Navy of the Republic of Texas, also known as the Second Texas Navy, was the naval warfare branch of the Texas Military Forces during the Republic of Texas. [1] It descended from the Texian Navy , which was established in November 1835 to fight for independence from Centralist Republic of Mexico in the Texas ...