Mobile and Baldwin County News
The Alabama Historical Commission will begin a new $1 million phase of Clotilda preservation work this fall, combining artifact excavation with environmental and engineering studies of the wreck site near…
Alabama officials have confirmed that a wreck found in the Mobile River is the Clotilda, the last known ship to bring enslaved Africans into the United States, a discovery that…
A week-long underwater survey of the Mobile River has concluded, cataloging newly discovered shipwrecks in a stretch of the river long known as a ship graveyard while continuing the search…
The Alabama Historical Commission is launching a Phase I sonar survey of the Mobile River to inventory shipwrecks and submerged cultural sites, work that could also help locate the long-sought…
A team of maritime archaeologists working with the Alabama Historical Commission has determined that a large wooden wreck found in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta is not the Clotilda, even as the…