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CSS Peedee
The CSS Peedee, also known as the CSS Pee Dee, was a Confederate gunboat launched in January 1865 and scuttled the following month during the American Civil War. The Pee Dee was a Macon-class gunboat that was armed with two Brooke rifled cannons and a captured Union Dahlgren cannon. She was built at the Mars Bluff Navy Yard on the Great Pee Dee River in Marion County, South Carolina. On December 21, 2010, South Carolina's state archaeologist announced that a team of researchers believed had discovered the remains of the Peedee. It is believed that in mid-February 1865, after an inconclusive upriver skirmish with a larger Union warship, the Pee Dees crew scuttled their ship to prevent her being captured by the enemy. The CSS PeeDee Research and Recovery Team's dive master Bob Butler found the first of the three missing cannons of the Confederate warship PeeDee, the 9" Dahlgren, on September 17, 1995. He and the team located the second of the missing guns, a Brooke Rifled cannon, on September 23, 2006. These were the first two cannons found from the wreck of the CSS Pee Dee. “They started dismantling the vessel and burning it,” The Associated Press quoted South Carolina state archaeologist Jonathan Leader as saying "It’s a debris field." The CSS Pee Dee 's guns were located by the CSS Peedee Research and Recovery Team, directed by Bob Butler of Florence, S.C., and Ted L.…
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The CSS Peedee, also known as the CSS Pee Dee, was a Confederate gunboat launched in January 1865 and scuttled the following month during the American Civil War. The Pee Dee was a Macon-class gunboat that was armed with two Brooke rifled cannons and a captured Union Dahlgren cannon. She was built at the Mars Bluff Navy Yard on the Great Pee Dee River in Marion County, South Carolina. On December 21, 2010, South Carolina's state archaeologist announced that a team of researchers believed had discovered the remains of the Peedee. It is believed that in mid-February 1865, after an inconclusive upriver skirmish with a larger Union warship, the Pee Dees crew scuttled their ship to prevent her being captured by the enemy. The CSS PeeDee Research and Recovery Team's dive master Bob Butler found the first of the three missing cannons of the Confederate warship PeeDee, the 9" Dahlgren, on September 17, 1995. He and the team located the second of the missing guns, a Brooke Rifled cannon, on September 23, 2006. These were the first two cannons found from the wreck of the CSS Pee Dee. “They started dismantling the vessel and burning it,” The Associated Press quoted South Carolina state archaeologist Jonathan Leader as saying "It’s a debris field." The CSS Pee Dee 's guns were located by the CSS Peedee Research and Recovery Team, directed by Bob Butler of Florence, S.C., and Ted L.…
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