Underwater Mobile: An Investigation of Three Civil War-Era Ironclads

Summary

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

In 2018, SEARCH archaeologists conducted multiple marine remote-sensing surveys utilizing a magnetometer, side-scan sonar, and sub-bottom profiler near Mobile, Alabama. The surveys focused on relocating and assessing the condition of three Civil War-era ironclads: USS Tecumseh near the mouth of Mobile Bay, and CSS Huntsville and CSS Tuscaloosa approximately five miles north of Mobile in the Mobile River. This poster will review the results of the 2018 surveys and previous work conducted on these ironclads. Additionally, it will explore how the remote-sensing signatures of these vessels compare to other Civil War-era ironclads.

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• 2022 SHA Poster Submissions   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2022

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