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Boat, possibly Civil War-era, emerges on Hilton Head shore

HILTON HEAD ISLAND - — Coastal waters uncovered a potential piece of Civil War-era history discovered last week by a visiting diplomat on a Hilton Head Island beach.

Sea Pines resident Sally Peterson was walking on the beach in Sea Pines with her brother, Peter Thomson, and his family, who were visiting for the holidays. Thomson is a Fiji diplomat and the South Pacific island nation’s permanent representative to the United Nations.

During their walk, Thomson discovered what appeared to be the ribs of an old wooden boat protruding from thick mud, like bones in a partially uncovered grave, on a shell beach opposite the 18th tee at Harbour Town Golf Links....
Read entire article at The State (SC)