U.S.S. Conastoga found

[Mayerling]

As some of you may know, I am a War of 1812 historian. In New Jersey, at the southern tip of the state, Cape May, and close to the Cape May lighthouse, there were the remains of a wooden ship on exhibit for a number of years. The claim was that the ribs of that ship were those of HMS Martin which was destroyed by American forces in the War of 1812. The truth though is quite the reverse. The Martin survived an encounter with American gunboats of the Delaware Flotilla and went on to fight another day, and it was the U.S. gunboats that lost the battle. The outdoor exhibit appears now to have been removed. In Tales of South Jersey: Profiles and Personalities, Rutgers University Press, 2001, p. 51, authors Jim Waltzer and Tom Wilk set the record straight.

See also

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/867

https://lostinjersey.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/the-hms-martin/

I'm surprised they did not rename the wreckage correctly and then display it properly. I recall that one of the gunboats of Benedict Arnold's flotilla in the battle of Valcourt Island in 1775, the "Philadelphia" was raised and ended up displayed in the Smithsonian Institution.

Jeff

[ChrisGeorge]

German World War I battleships in Portsmouth harbor.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/german-imperial-navy-wwi-world-war-one-battleships-warships-portsmouth-harbour-archaeology-a6951241.html