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  • Divers recover cannon from CSS Alabama in English Channel

    07/14/2005 10:35:41 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 76 replies · 2,083+ views
    Columbus Ledger-Enquirer ^ | Tue, Jul. 12, 2005
    MOBILE, Ala. - The 7,000-pound main battery pivot gun of the Confederate sea raider CSS Alabama has been recovered from the bottom of the English Channel, where the vessel was sunk 141 years ago by a Union warship, a project spokesman said. The cannon was brought to the surface by the French naval vessel Elan, said Gordon Watts, an underwater archaeologist from North Carolina who is overseeing the project. Watts told the Mobile Register in a story Tuesday that French divers and American archaeologists recovered the cannon Saturday about 7 miles off the coast of Cherbourg, France, in 200 feet...