Discovery
In 1999 the Portuguese company Arqueonautas Worldwide S.A. recovered various articles from the wreck of the Yorktown, which were subsequently auctioned at Sothebys in London. In early 2001, the U.S. Department of Justice informed Sothebys that under United States law (principally the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, and subsequently the 2005 Sunken Military Craft Act) all wrecks of ships and aircraft remain the property of the U.S. Government. Sothebys returned the objects; which included cutlery, coins, sword hilts and scabbards, a powder flask, and various ship fittings.
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