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Another of ship of the sunken fleet that supported Cornwallis’s troops at Yorktown has been found in the York River, at a depth of 23 feet.<\/p>\n
A little bit of the history: this was Cornwallis’s final battle against the Colonial Army. His surrender at Yorktown is shown in painting included in the article. The toll on the 25,000 troops was horrendous, but in the end, he gave up.<\/p>\n
From the article:\u00a0 French batteries firing heated shot hit the Charon<\/em>, setting it ablaze. The blow wasn\u2019t as bad as it sounds, since most of the Charon\u2019s<\/em> 44 guns had already been moved ashore to support the ground battle. But when the fire burned through the ship\u2019s anchor rope, it drifted into two large transport vessels, compounding the loss. All three burned to their waterlines.<\/p>\n The Charon<\/em>, one of the first wrecks ever located in the York, was excavated in the 1930s. The site of the other burned ship has also been long known.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n This wreck is close enough to those two to be the third, the Shipwright<\/em>. Transport vessels were known to carry a few cannon for self-defense. – Article.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n