Navy divers from Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2 and Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 6 have so far recovered the four cannon located from the hardluck ironclad CSS Georgia.
These included a 6 pdr brought up on 15 July, a massive 9-inch Dahlgren smoothebore and 6.4-inch Brooke Banded rifle on 21 July, and a final Brooke the next day.
The divers are now switching to removing larger objects, such as the armored casemate, boiler, screw and other propulsion equipment before the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project moves into the next phase.
Her prop broke the surface on July 25
Photo #: NH 58722 The Confederate Ironclad Ram ‘Georgia’ Line engraving published in The Soldier in Our Civil War, Volume II, page 31, depicting CSS Georgia, an ironclad floating battery that served in the defenses of Savannah, Georgia. Despite the caption included in the original image, this vessel was not a ram. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
