Continued from April 20, 2017.
There was a post in Civil War Talk by Mike d.
He said that a rifled shot from Fort Jackson struck the Carlton's quarterdeck a broke a beam, passing through the magazine and out the ship's starboard quarter. The crew immediately set signals that the ship was disabled.
He found no mention of the 13-inch mortar or shells being removed after the ship sank.;
From 1982 to 1987, Ray Saltus used a mag drag in the area, but made no positive hits.
Mike d wants to know if anyone knows whether or not the Maria J. Carlton was salvaged or if the mortar was ever recovered.
Later, he added that the Carlton's commander when it sank, Master C.E. Jack, also commanded another mortar ship named the Sidney C. Jones, which he had to burn on 15 July 1862, below Vicksburg.
Right Up There With Selfridge Sinking Ships. --Old B-Runner
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