News and Events

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Summer 2004 Update: June 7, 2004 - Cherbourg Ceremony Planned for September 2004

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Summer 2004 Update: Status Report

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Summer 2002 Update: American archaeologists and personnel from the Naval Surface Warfare Center and the Naval Historical Center have completed a remote operated vehicle (ROV) survey.

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Summer 2002 Update: Additional pictures of artifacts recovered from the CSS ALABAMA during June and July.

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Summer 2002 Update: Photographic survey of CSS Alabama wreck site begins.

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Summer 2002 Update: CSS Alabama's Bell   Recovered - Article provided by Kevin Foster, National Park Service, Washington, D.C.

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Summer 2002 Update: CSS Alabama's Bell Recovered.

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Artifacts from the Maritime Museum of South Africa have been loaned to the newly expanded Museum of Mobile, Alabama.

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The Summer 2001 dives on the wreck of the CSS ALABAMA are complete.

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Naval Historical Center to host a meeting of the CSS ALABAMA Scientific Committee.

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Mr. Shea McLean begins examining recovered artifacts at U.S. Naval Base in Charleston, S.C.

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(July 23, 2000 - Mobile, Alabama) Dr. Gordon Watts' preliminary synopsis of the second phase of the year 2000 effort.

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(July 14, 2000 - Cherbourg, France) Weather was poor again today. Divers attempted to go out, but were forced to turn around by the seas.

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(July 9, 2000 - Cherbourg, France) Weather has been an issue as the second phase of the dive on the CSS Alabama begins.

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(June 29, 2000 - Cherbourg, France) A porthole from the CSS Alabama was recovered June 29 by a group of French Navy divers.

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(June 28, 2000 - Cherbourg, France) Two Divers using underwater scooter to uncover the main fire pump on the gundeck of the wreck, CSS Alabama, Cherbourg, France.

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(June 26, 2000 - Cherbourg, France) The 32-pound cannon cast specially for the CSS Alabama in 1862 was raised today by the French-American dive team.

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(June 20, 2000 - Mobile, Ala.) Gordon Watts reports from Cherbourg that 17 boxes of dive, camera and underwater excavation gear have cleared customs and are at the site. Six boxes have cleared but are still in Paris.

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(June 15, 2000 - Mobile, Ala.) Dr. Gordon Watts, PhD, Principal Investigator for archaeological operations on the CSS ALABAMA, departed today for Cherbourg, France.