"DIVER IDENTIFICATION OF SIX ANOMALIES AND

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District is proposing to expand the Savannah Harbor Navigation Project. The expansion project will consist of deepening the existing navigation channel including Kings Island Turning Basin, eight berths at Garden City Terminal, two proposed meeting areas, and three proposed bend wideners. Previous cultural resources surveys of the channel have identified six anomalies and two cultural resources sites, Confederate Cribs and an unknown shipwreck, that cannot be avoided by the proposed project. As an agency of the Federal Government, the District must consider the effects that their project activities will have on cultural resources. Therefore, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District is responsible for determining if any cultural resources are located within the current Project Area, and if so, prior to the implementation of any project activities determining if any resources are eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. Subsequently, and in compliance with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' responsibilities towards cultural resources, Panamerican Consultants, Inc. of Memphis, Tennessee was subcontracted by DCA/GEC A Joint Venture, LLC, of Jacksonville, Florida, to conduct a comprehensive submerged cultural resources investigation of the six anomalies and two cultural resource sites. In response to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District's Scope of Work entitled, Diver Identification of Six Anomalies And Recordation and Testing Of Confederate Cribs and an Unknown Shipwreck, Inner Harbor, Savannah Harbor Expansion Project, Chatham County, Georgia and Jasper County, South Carolina, Panamerican Consultants, Inc. conducted archival research, a refinement survey, diver investigation of six anomalies, a comprehensive remote sensing survey of the Confederate Cribs and unknown shipwreck, and subsequent recordation and testing of the cribs and shipwreck. Performed between December 4, 2012 and February 2, 2013, the project was conducted for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District under Contract No. W912HN-12-D-0016, Delivery Order No. 0011. Findings, conclusions, and recommendations of the investigation include: • Diving investigations of the six targets located in 2005 found that all are non-significant. • Six cribs were identified with the high-resolution sonar survey and they correspond exactly to Civil War map locations. Recordation of the most intact crib was completed. • Diving investigations on the Unknown Shipwreck resulted in an identification of the wreck as the remains of the Undine, a historically significant tea clipper built in Sutherland, England by the well-known shipbuilder William Pile. The Austrian-flagged vessel, which sank in the harbor, was placed on the Fig Island Training Wall jetty in 1893. • Diving investigations on the site of the Undine has also resulted in the confirmation that numerous other historic vessels are present, and the location appears to be a ship "graveyard". These vessels received only a summary assessment and documentation, but because of proximity to the Undine, have been given the same site trinomial. • Both the Confederate Cribs site, 38JA1178, and the Undine, 9CH1351, meet National Register of Historic Places eligibility criteria. • A review of the Project Activities indicates they will have no impact on any of the resources and no further archaeological work is recommended.