9,000 pound Confederate cannon recovered from CSS Georgia

AL.com ^ | September 22, 2015 | By Jeremy Gray

[bob_denard]

A team of marine archaeologists last week recovered a 9,000 pound cannon from the CSS Georgia, a Civil War ironside that has rested at the bottom of the Savannah River since 1864.

The Dahlgren rifled cannon was previously undiscovered by several high-tech, multibeam sonar surveys, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wrote in a press release.

The ship must be moved for a $700 million project to deepen the river to proceed.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Ironclad, not ironside.

[knarf]

"... cannon was previously undiscovered by several high-tech, multibeam sonar surveys ... "

Still pondering that phrase

[grobdriver]

high-tech, multibeam sonar

I wish we'd had those those multibeam sonar thingies in P-3s back in the day.

[fso301]

Still pondering that phrase

My guess is the bottom of a waterway that has been involved in international maritime traffic for 4 centuries has to be strewn with so much debris that pinpointing anything in particular is difficult.

[uglybiker]

Using advanced technology, they lost it again?

[Jonty30]

At 9,000 lbs, I’m not surprised that they lost it.

[Slambat]

That’s the weirdest looking cannon I have ever seen. It looks
more like a claw.

[Klemper]

Of course, after we take down all of the Confederate monuments, we will be melting this cannon down as well. Taxpayers will be forced to pay to recover it. Taxpayers will be forced to pay to restore it..... and taxpayers will be forced to pay to take it down and destroy it.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Some great comments at the site. Sounds like a bunch of FReepers.

* Restore it for we may need it again
* Should be melted down and cast into free spinner rims for the disadvantaged.
* This is going to aggravate black insecurity.
* OMG! NO!! This must be destroyed right away! Someone is going to be offended because it’s a Rebel cannon.
* You can bet that if it is proposed to put it on display, there will be protests and demands that it be destroyed.

[Fhios]

Melt it down in a huge fire of Huckleberry Fin books, it’s racist. /s

[wally_bert]

Query, why are journalists incompetent?

[driftdiver]

Ok that was funny.

[knarf]

Boy, we just can't keep NUTHIN' from sharp thinkers ...

yer right

it's the Confederate Loyalist Ammunated Weapon

[from occupied ga]

The comments about the hydrogen bomb are inaccurate. It was found about six months ago by some Canadian scuba divers on holiday and subsequently removed by navy engineers. 6 megatons apparently still in good enough shape to require a day or two of study before it could be moved.

[SunkenCiv]

[SunkenCiv]

• Confederate Warship, Weapons Recovered from Georgia River
• Man says photo at center of Civil War mystery is a 30-year-old hoax he did as a teen
• Confederate ironclad wreckage may rise again
• Divers Find Confederate Ironclad In 'Very Nice' Condition (CSS Georgia)
• History at 40 feet
• Divers Uncover Secrets of a Confederate Vessel
• Study Begins on Confederate Warship

[WKUHilltopper]

Yeah, I was thinking about the same. It’s Confederate. Better run and hide from it.

[bolobaby]

BURN IT!

[Axenolith]

It wasn’t found, that was one of those idiotic satire news stories.