NAVY HALTS de BRAAK
SALVAGE
1952
The U. S. Navy has brought
a halt to would be salvager's of the deBraak and it's treasure
sunk off Lewes in 1798. A
Navy mine sweeper came along side them Monday and ordered them
off the site with orders
from Fort Miles. The salvagers were told they were interfering
with
defense installations in
the Capes area.
Archie Brittingham of Lees,
one of the salvage crew, said the Navy action came just as they
were preparing to send down
a diver to investigate a wreck they had located two miles out in the
Delaware Breakwater.
The diver preparing to go
down over the site was Harry Morgan, known for the salvage of
the USS Benevolence, a Navy
hospital ship , sunk in San Frencisco Bay several years ago..Morgan
has said he was on board
the deBraak several years age but salvage was not completed then.
There are seven men owners
of the salvage operation. They are Archie Brittingham,
W. Harold Brittingham, Capt
Charles Johnson, Henry Buckalou, and Randy McCracken all of
Lewes, J.. Rodney King of
Georgetown and Harry Morgan of Florida.
Source: Salisbury Daily
Times, Salisbury, Maryland October 3, 1952.
Abstract December 21,
2017 by Harrison H.
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