The CSS Georgia was a Confederate ironclad built in 1862, that saw little action during the Civil War, essentially an ironclad floating battery anchored by Fort Jackson to impede the Union fleet from sailing up the river.
It was scuttled by Confederate forces in 1864 after Savannah fell to the Union army under Major General William T. Sherman. The wreck was discovered and marked in1968 after it was struck by a dredge, and recovery efforts got underway in earnest in 2015, during the early stages of the Savannah Harbor deepening project. I wrote about this at length back then. Just hit the label CSS Georgia ironclad to see those posts.
The extra care in dredging by the sites of Fort Jackson and the CSS Georgia comes about because of the possibility of dangerous parts of the ship sliding further into the river bed. But experts believe the cannons and anchor might date to an even earlier age, possibly as far back as the 1770s and the American Revolution.
The cannons, anchor and timber will be further analyzed by the Corps of Engineers and divers will be sent down to place the items in a more specific historical context.
Historic records indicate that there are several historic shipwrecks in that vicinity, but there is a good possibility that it might be the HMS Rose, but that can't be verified until after further research.
--Old B-R'er
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