http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8B9URE00.html Divers recover cannon from CSS Alabama in English Channel
07/12/2005 Associated Press 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 of water. He said the cannon will be placed in a specially constructed container and shipped to the U.S. for conservation. A project supporter in Mobile said it will be taken to the underwater archaeology lab at Texas A&M University. The CSS Alabama attacked Union merchant ships around the world during the U.S. Civil War. It was sunk in a battle with the USS Kearsarge off the French coast. ***************** CSS Alabama cannon raised Tuesday, July 12, 2005 By GEORGE WERNETH Staff Reporter The 7,000-pound main battery pivot gun of the Confederate sea raider CSS Alabama was recovered from the bottom of the English Channel this past weekend, 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 which is equipped with a special 'A' frame on the stern to facilitate lifting heavy objects," according to Gordon Watts, an underwater archaeolo gist from North Carolina. Watts has been overseeing the project. Watts reported to the Mobile Register by e-mail from France that the mammoth cannon was recovered Saturday by a team of French divers and American archaeologists. The wreck site is in some 200 feet of water, about 7 miles off the coast of Cherbourg, France. http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1121159880202320. xml <http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1121159880202320 .xml&coll=3> &coll=3 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
