CONFEDERATE SHIP FOUND IN TAMPA RIVER

Tampa, FL - A dive team with the Tampa based Florida Aquarium has made quite a discovery by opening a window into Tampa’s proud Confederate past -  a very rare Tampa based Confederate blockade runner that was torched in 1862 by U.S. Marines trying to lay siege to the City of Tampa.

Using sonar, the team says they’ve found what could be the remains of a wrecked Confederate blockade runner that was hidden at a makeshift Confederate launch alongside the Hillsborough River during the early years of the War for Southern Independence.