SAVANNAH, Ga. (Aug. 21, 2015) -- As cities along the East Coast scramble to bolster their infrastructure and employ massive dredges to deepen their harbors, Savannah began its harbor expansion with a ...

On October 17, 1862, the contract was signed to build the Confederate ironclad gunboat CSS Neuse. The vessel was needed to bolster southern naval defenses and to prevent Union occupation of the ...

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — The Civil War posed a great challenge to the Confederate Navy, facing a Union Navy that was well established with many more ships. They needed a solution that would allow them ...

The CSS Georgia continues to surprise archaeologists. Case in point, this 9,000-pound Dahlgren rifled cannon that archaeologists thought was a different type of cannon before raising it to the surface ...

Imagine working in a world the color of Irish coffee, where you cannot see much beyond your hand. Where a constant force pushes you away from your task and upends you if you stay too long. And walking ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. -- After 150 years at the bottom of the Savannah River, the armored skeleton of the Confederate warship CSS Georgia is being raised to the surface one 5-ton chunk at a time. Navy divers ...

On October 12, 1861, CSS Manassas became the first ironclad to see combat at the Battle of the Head of Passes on the Mississippi River. Protected by iron or steel armor plates, ironclads held a ...

She was scuttled rather than left to fall into Union hands during the war Now the ironclad must be moved so a shipping channel can be deepened She didn’t have enough power to maneuver and effectively ...

This week, an archaeological team is expected to set out to see if they can find remains of the CSS Neuse, a battleship that met a watery grave near Kinston, NC, during the Civil War. Now, many of you ...

DINWIDDIE — While many Americans remember the famous land battles of the Civil War such as Gettysburg, Manassas or our own Petersburg Campaign, a large and equally important war was waged at sea.

On March 9, 1862, Confederate Navy ship CSS Virginia and Union navy ship USS Monitor met in battle off the coast of Virginia. Their clash was inconclusive, but the battle was the first time metal ...