"Mystery of missing Civil War submarines resurfaces" Topic
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Tango01 | 27 Jan 2015 4:02 p.m. PST |
"A local historian and urban archaeologist thinks he's solved a mystery: What happened to four Confederate submersibles known to be in Shreveport during the last two years of the Civil War, but missing in action since then. Marty Loschen, director of the Spring Street Museum in downtown Shreveport, thinks he's found remnants of the hand-propelled craft in the banks of a branch of Cross Bayou about a half-mile west of where the Confederate Navy had a shipyard. At Cross Bayou's mouth on Red River, it was home to the leaky ironclad CSS Missouri and a fast packet, the Webb, whose presence overshadowed the humbler underwater vessels. Several months ago, before recent rains raised water levels on Cross Bayou and its feeder streams, Loschen and his brother found decades-old rusted metal and some oddly formed tree roots whose shape suggested they had grown over something curved that had rotted or rusted away. The site was on a bank revealed by low water on Bowman's chute…" Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
doc mcb | 27 Jan 2015 4:52 p.m. PST |
Cool. There was a great deal of Confederate submarine activity beyond the HUNLEY. I agree with those who think the monitor lost during the battle of Mobile bay probably was sunk by a sub and not a static torpedo. |
jgibbons | 27 Jan 2015 6:43 p.m. PST |
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GoodOldRebel | 28 Jan 2015 6:27 a.m. PST |
another excellent post ….please continue sir! |
Nashville | 28 Jan 2015 6:28 a.m. PST |
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John the Greater | 28 Jan 2015 10:09 a.m. PST |
As I recall, there used to be a Confederate submarine outside the Cabildo on Jackson Square in New Orleans. It wasn't there the last time I visited. Does anyone else remember that and does anyone know what happened to it? |
Tango01 | 28 Jan 2015 11:21 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it boys!. (smile) Amicalement Armand |
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