A team of engineers and technicians spent two months inerting 170 Dahlgren and 6.4-inch Brooke projectiles that Navy divers recovered from the CSS Georgia this summer.
Mechanized Recovery of CSS Georgia, by Jeremy Buddemeier, USACE, Savannah District. The mechanized portion is one of the final phases of the CSS Georgia’s recovery that will remove the ironclad prior to deepening the Savannah harbor. Workers…
Drone Footage Captures CSS Georgia Recovery Activity. DVIDS. This drone footage was taken from Old Fort Jackson where the Civil War Ironclad CSS Georgia is currently being recovered adjacent to the fort from the barge in the Savannah River. The…
CSS Georgia Raising, by Michael Jordan (Cosmos Mariner Productions), USACE, Savannah District. DVIDS. The CSS Georgia 'Raise the Wreck!' Festival on July 25, 2015 in Savannah, Georgia, showing diver activity on the CSS Georgia Civil War ironclad…
CSS Georgia Propeller Raised from the Savannah River, by Michael Jordan, (Cosmos Mariner Productions) USACE, Savannah District. DVIDS. US Navy salvage divers raised the bent, encrusted propeller of the Civil War ironclad warship CSS Georgia from the…
Civil War Cannons Recovered in Savannah River, by Michael Jordan, (Cosmos Mariner Productions) USACE, Savannah District. DVIDS. US Navy salvage and EOD divers recover four historic cannons from the wreck of the Civil War ironclad warship CSS Georgia…
Raising the Big Guns, by Jeremy Buddemeier, USACE, Savannah District. DVIDS.Navy divers from Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2 and Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 6 recover the first of four cannons from the CSS Georgia, July 15. The divers…