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Re: Scuttling/abandonment
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I may be wrong but I think the Abandoned Shipwreck Act covers any shipwreck whether it is scuttled, sunk on purpose, stricken fron the rolls or otherwise..

The wreck of the Eastport seemingly falls into all three categories.

The Abandoned Shipwreck Act (Pub.L. 100-298; 43 U.S.C. 2101-2106) was signed into law by the President of the United States on April 28, 1988. Under the Act, the U.S. Government asserted title to three categories of abandoned shipwrecks: abandoned shipwrecks embedded in a State's submerged lands; abandoned shipwrecks embedded in coralline formations protected by a State on its submerged lands; and abandoned shipwrecks located on a State's submerged lands and included in or determined eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places.

http://www.nps.gov/archeology/submerged/intro.htm

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