An island grew over the remains of the ship as silt was deposited by the river around the sunken hull.

Such things accreted, like coral crowing on a sunken hull.

Australian yachtsmen today abandoned all plans to raise the sunken hull of their $3 million America's Cup yacht, One Australia.

From that vantage point, Thern saw the sunken hull of the ill-fated liner as they passed it.

Accessible only by boat, it straddles the sunken hull of the battleship without touching it.

Together, he and Mrs. Bush solemnly dropped flowers into the water above the sunken hull.

While the boys had been intent on the sunken hull, the swift, strong current had caught their craft.

"We saw the sunken hull of a black boat off one of the islands," Joe explained.

Of the deceased, 24 were recovered from the sunken hull.

In the naval records she was still theMerrimac, the sunken hull of the Federal vessel on which the South had constructed the ironclad.