The Virginian-Pilot
                            THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT  
              Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Thursday, September 15, 1994           TAG: 9409150461
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B1   EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   17 lines

ARTIFACT PULLED FROM THE DEEP

ILLUSTRATION: Color staff photo by DREW C. WILSON/

Clifton Darby of Laurel, Md., recovered the aft auxiliary helm of

the 465-foot sunken tanker Byron D. Benson on Tuesday. The wreck,

15 miles off Kill Devil Hills, was torpedoed on April 7, 1942.

by CNB