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Piece of the Shipwreck of the USS Royal Savage. Valcour Island, 1776. A piece of wood said to have been salvaged from the USS Royal Savage. Includes inscription “A piece of the Royal Savage, of Benedict Arnold’s fleet, sunk by the – British fleet, commanded by Capt Thomas Pringle on Oct 11th 1776, off the – S.W. point of Valcour Island, on Lake Champlain N.Y. Obtained at an – extraordinary low stage of water by Louis M. Fouquet. Plattsburgh N.Y. – over 100 years after the vessel was sunk – Presented to U.S. Grant Post No 327. G.A.R. Nov 15th 1899 – by comrade John D. Fouquet”. 6 x 1 ½ x ½”. Wear and chipping to inscription.