CSS Albemarle

It's interesting that this appears to show a gallery position on the "casemate deck" for sharpshooters. I assume these are iron plates. You wonder if they were hinged to the deck or stationary.
The original drawings of CSS Fredericksburg also show those plates along the top of the casemate, but they were never fitted. I think Porter intended them to be fixed.
 
The Albemarle was raised 155 years ago today. I haven't found out exactly how she was raised. Does anybody know?

Also, wouldn't it have been great for the ship to have been saved for future generations.

--RoadDog
 
The Albemarle was raised 155 years ago today. I haven't found out exactly how she was raised. Does anybody know?

Also, wouldn't it have been great for the ship to have been saved for future generations.

--RoadDog
The USN salvaged her intact, and took her for examination, presumably they blocked the hole in her side and pumped herout.
 
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