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#20326
 Divers raise wreckage of Confederate warship in 5-ton chunks
Smithsgold - 11/28/2015 6:21 PM
Category: General
Replies: 3
independentmail.com/news/divers-raise-wreckage-of...61107-339319421.html

Divers raise wreckage of Confederate warship in 5-ton chunks

After 150 years at the bottom of the Savannah River, the armored skeleton of the Confederate warship CSS Georgia is being raised to the surface one 5-ton chunk at a time.

Navy divers who began working in late June to recover cannons, unexploded shells and other artifacts from the riverbed finally started midweek on their last major task — retrieving an estimated 250,000 pounds of the Civil War ironclad’s armored siding.
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Eric_R - 11/28/2015 7:48 PM
Chunks is all you can say about it now. I bet restoration efforts will take some time but yield interesting results.
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LatitudeAdjustment - 11/30/2015 7:42 AM
Years ago while on a dive trip to Gray’s reef we were told some divers were working on a civil war wreck in the river but given the tidal flow the dive windows were short and the viz shorter. I wonder if this was it?
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Smithsgold - 11/30/2015 12:36 PM
sas.usace.army.mil/Missions/CivilWorks/SavannahHa...sion/CSSGeorgia.aspx

Recovery of the CSS Georgia is an important component of the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project. Archeologist Julie Morgan is the Corps’ leading official in charge of the CSS Georgia recovery, which includes collection and analysis of artifacts, conservation, and a final technical report.

Heres another link with alot more information on the CSS Georgia