This is absolutely awesome – this particular find, since it falls just within the scope of the current WIP. A whole Mississippi/Missouri-era steamship, with a cargo of goods intended for frontier settlements, sunk in the mid-1850s with cargo entire, There are so many artifacts retrieved, that they have to display them in an old department store, and take advice from retail…
Behold – the Steamship Arabia! (or a reasonable facsimile thereof.)
You’re right – It’s enough to make us Historical Fiction aficionados drool at the prospects.