Raising and Preserving the CSS Georgia

[Becky Morgan]

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2012/0...pwreck-050512/

Even with the obvious damage and deterioration, this should be most interesting.

[David Fox]

About 30 years ago there was a big push to salvage the "Georgia"... probably still have pamplets somewhere round-about espousing the idea. Likely, in the early '80s, the job could have been done for a fraction of today's cost and the condition of the remains would have been better. I recall w/in the last 20 years imminent threats to blow the wreck up. By all means, raise her! But by what theory does the U.S. Navy claim ownership? Some statutory anomoly? They had nothing to do with her demise and, great, unhealthy, immobile slug that she was, no one captured her. Curious: did the U.S. Navy claim the "Neuse". "Jackson", or "Chattahoochee"?