An edition of Hardluck ironclad (1966)

Hardluck ironclad

the sinking and salvage of the Cairo

Rev. ed.

by Edwin C. Bearss

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An edition of Hardluck ironclad (1966)

Hardluck ironclad

the sinking and salvage of the Cairo

Rev. ed.

On the morning of December 12, 1862, the Union gunboat Cairo, nosing her way up the Yazoo River north of Vicksburg, Mississippi, triggered two Confederate demijohn mines. Within minutes the 512-ton ironclad had sunk six fathoms to the muddy bottom with no loss of life -- the first armored war vessel ever downed by an electrically activated mine. A whole new era of naval warfare had begun. In Hardluck Ironclad Edwin Bearss tells how he and two other Civil War historians discovered the Cairo almost a century later -- still intact at the bottom of the Yazoo, her big guns loaded and ready to fire, much of the gear aboard just as it was that December morning when the crew abandoned her -- and how, almost miraculously, she was later salvaged and restored. - Back cover.

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1980

Publisher

Louisiana State University Press

Language

English

Pages

222

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1 Hardluck ironclad: the sinking and salvage of the Cairo 1980, Louisiana State University Press in English - Rev. ed. 0807106836 9780807106839	aaaa Nearby Libraries
2 Hardluck ironclad: the sinking and salvage of the Cairo, being a first-hand account of the discovery of the torpedoed Union gunboat and of operations to raise her from the bottom of the Yazoo, together with a description of artifacts found on board; including a history of the Western Flotilla of which she was a part, with numerous illustrations, and maps. 1966, Louisiana State University Press in English	zzzz Nearby Libraries

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