CSS PEE DEE CANNONS
After 18 years of searching, the Pee Dee's cannons were found, but still remain underwater today. When they are finally brought up, two will go on display at the Florence (SC) Museum and the other will be headed for the Horry Count (SC, Myrtle Beach) Museum.
USS PHILADELPHIA
Rufus Perdue was fishing for grouper off the coast of McClellanville, SC, when he discovered the wreck of the USS Philadelphia. After the war was over, this ship was transporting surplus cannons from Charleston, SC, when it sank under their weight, north of the city.
So far, about 25 cannons have been found on the wreck and brought up and now on display at Perdue's Murrells Inlet home.
I wouldn't mind checking them out.
Beach Music and Civil War Cannons!! --Old B-Runner
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