USS Cairo

[John Hartwell]

See this article from CJA, Collegiate Journal of Anthropology, of all places:

http://anthrojournal.com/issue/octo...history-and-discovery-of-a-civil-war-ironclad

Cheers!

jno

 

[jay gale]

Great article. It's of particular interest to me as I modeled the Cairo in 3D a couple of years back, worked with a park ranger at Vicksburg to make sure I did it correctly. I want to make the trip there to see the ship, and gather photo source to make my version of her more accurate. Expired Image Removed

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

Interesting article.

One point I'd just like to make... this article and others make it sound like Ed Bearss and company simply jumped into a boat and rowed up and down the Yazoo with a compass to find the Cairo. In fact, that was just the final stage of the search; there was a lot of historical legwork, chasing down rumors and family stories, etc., prior to that.

 

[AndyHall]

One point I'd just like to make... this article and others make it sound like Ed Bearss and company simply jumped into a boat and rowed up and down the Yazoo with a compass to find the Cairo. In fact, that was just the final stage of the search; there was a lot of historical legwork, chasing down rumors and family stories, etc., prior to that.

I had the genuine privilege of hearing Ed Bearss himself recount the story of finding U.S.S. Cairo not long ago. Listening to him tell the story is an opportunity not to be missed, in part because it takes him almost as long to tell the story as it did to find the ship.

 

[Bob Owen]

I knew where the Cairo was back in the 1950's as well as many other kids in the area who used to dive of the pilot house while swimming. We just didn't know it was the Cairo. All we knew it was a sunken civil war boat.