Navy divers prep for mission to raise CSS Georgia

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CSS Georgia?

A team of Navy divers spent a week in mid-May preparing for an historic salvage of a Civil War ironclad scuttled more than 150 years ago.

Mobile Diving and Salvage Company 23 will deploy to Savannah, Georgia, on June 1 to free the Confederate States Ship Georgia from her watery grave. The operation, expected to take just under two months, is to recover wreckage in five groupings; forward and aft armor casements; engine remnants such as boilers, shafts and propellers; four cannons; and live ordnance.

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