"Confederate Submarine Base Located" Topic
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Tango01 | 05 Jun 2019 12:47 p.m. PST |
"A Shreveport historian and urban archaeologist named Marty Loschen believes he has solved a long forgotten Civil War mystery. What happened to 4 Confederate submersibles known to be in Shreveport, Louisiana during the last 2 years of the Civil War but whose whereabouts is still totally unknown. He recently announced that he believes he has found the remnants of a hand-propelled craft in the banks of a branch of Cross Bayou about half a mile west of where the Confederate Navy had a well established shipyard. Cross Bayou's mouth on Red River was home to the leaky Ironclad the CSS Missouri and a fast picket namely the Webb. Several months ago, Marty Loschen and his brother were searching the Bayou's mouth when the water levels were particularly low. They spend much of their time exploring the more remote, forgotten and forbidding surrounding areas of Shreveport. They discovered there decades old rusted ironwork, metal strips and some oddly formed trees which were indicative that they had grown over something curved and long rotted or rusted away. He has in his possession an 1864 map of Shreveports defences which indicate that there were some small buildings where he discovered the rusty artefacts. On his discovery he said "There is your sub base……. There's an island out there. My theory is if you're going to have a clandestine sub base, you've got to put it out there. Look, there are structures out there, near what I found. It has to be". He is waiting for a further period of low water to make further explorations. The artefacts are currently under 10 feet of water…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
ColCampbell | 05 Jun 2019 1:45 p.m. PST |
He is waiting for a further period of low water to make further explorations. He may have a long, long wait what with all the rain the region has been having and will continue to have. Good luck with his hunting! Jim |
Zephyr1 | 05 Jun 2019 8:39 p.m. PST |
Ironic, needing a submarine to excavate a submarine base… ;-) |
Tango01 | 06 Jun 2019 12:04 p.m. PST |
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