Ralph Eshelman, who helped lead the recovery of the artifacts in 1980, aboard a pontoon boat Sept 5. on the upper Patuxent River near the site where the wreck was found. (Steve Vogel - The Washington Post )
By Steve Vogel
Aboard a pontoon boat chugging past the marshland of Maryland's upper Patuxent River on a recent Saturday, Ralph Eshelman pointed to the spot where the muddy brown water hides a shipwreck nearly two centuries old, part of the American flotilla that defended the Chesapeake Bay when the British burned Washington during the War of 1812.
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