Due to her scuttling, previous dredging and more damage from attempts to try to remove her, it doesn't sound like there is intact hull to raise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Georgia_%28ironclad%29
Posted on 08/18/2015 12:08:52 PM PDT by Kartographer
The armored husk of a Confederate warship is being raised out of the depths of a Georgia river, 150 years after the ship's crew deliberately sunk it.
Government officials are pulling approximately 250,000 lbs. (113,000 kilograms) of the warship CSS Georgia's armored siding — the ship's skeleton — from the Savannah River.
Crews are raising the Civil War-era ship's remains in 10,000-lb. (4,500 kg) chunks that measure about 4 feet tall by 24 feet wide (1.2 by 7.3 meters). The siding is the last major ship part remaining in the water; Navy divers began retrieving the ship's unexploded shells, cannons and other artifacts in late June. [See photos of the CSS Georgia's recovery]
"The historical significance is evident in everything we do," Jason Potts, the U.S. Navy's on-scene commander, said on Aug. 12, the Associated Press reported.
Officials decided to remove the sunken ship before the start of a joint state and federal project to deepen the Savannah River's shipping channel from 42 feet to 47 feet (12.8 to 14.3 m). The channel deepening will allow giant cargo shipsto more easily enter the Savannah port, according to the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
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Yeah, they might be able to display it in some museum, as long as any confederate flag insignia are removed from it.
PING
Iirc there was a similar Civil War riverine steam warship that Clive Cussler’s group went after years ago.
They showed up at the site only a couple days after the Army Corps of Engineers had obliterated the thing by dredging straight through it.
Why do these morons feel the need to give us the metric system units?
The United States of America *NEVER* had a *CIVIL* war.
Maybe they left their meters running...
Way cool.
ha...just getting the ball rolling. (There's another lively thread on the causes of the Civil War going....very interesting reading)
Race and PC pimps raise confederate ship so they can sink it again.
Only charge white folks to get into the eventual museum.
Hence the phrase....Walk a kilometer in my shoes.
Due to her scuttling, previous dredging and more damage from attempts to try to remove her, it doesn't sound like there is intact hull to raise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Georgia_%28ironclad%29
Thanks Tennessee Nana. Even apart from the historical and scientific aspects, it's excellent that the unexploded ordinance has been removed from the navigable waterway.
Hope she isn’t flying a Confederate flag. God knows what kind of uproar it would cause if she was.
You never know who's going to show up when you post something on the internet, or who'll link to it or repost it.
Maybe "os Confederatos" in Brazil are just dying to hear what happened to their navy and what can be salvaged from it.
It’s only an old symbol of white hate and slavery, burn it. /sarc
Bring it up so we can hate it.
I am afraid if that hulk is raised somebody will go on a shooting rampage.
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