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Story last updated at 11:56 AM on Friday, July 11, 2008

Pratt Museum unveiling Historic Torrent Shipwreck Artifacts.




On Tuesday July 15th from 11:00am-1:00pm the Pratt Museum will hold the unveiling of Historic Torrent Shipwreck Artifacts.



 
 

The program will be held in the south parking lot and lower level of the museum and will include, Mountain howitzer cannon and other artifacts recovered from the Torrent shipwreck site off Port Graham to be unveiled at the Pratt Museum on Tuesday July 15th, exactly 140 years after the Torrent sank on July 15, 1868. Unveiling at 11:00am. Viewing until 1:00pm. Presentations by Dave McMahan, State Archaeologist, and Steve Lloyd, Shipwreck Historian, whose marine salvage dive team discovered the Torrent's remains on July 24, 2007. Latest underwater video footage of the salvage effort will play in the museum's Lower Level during the event.

For more information contact the Pratt Museum info@prattmuseum.org or visit their web site www.prattmuseum.org"

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