Extensive fungal decay persists on the USS Cairo, and further research is needed to understand these organisms. Better conservation strategies will depend on deeper biological insights. University of ...
the uss cairo was built in mound city il.she was commissioned 1/25/1862 she was on tour in the yazoo river and hit a confederate mine and sunk 12/12/1862.she was raised 8/13/1964 out of the yazoo ...
Over that past 15 to 20 years there has been a revolution in U.S. ship docking tugs. Larger container ships and tankers made obsolete the conventional single and twin propeller tugs that could serve ...
User-Created Clip April 30, 2019 2019-03-23T18:00:57-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/f62/20190323182750003_hd.jpgEdwin Bearss at Longwood Universsity -- 2019 ...
The Vicksburg National Military Park will let Mississippians get an up close and personal look at the USS Cairo Saturday during a special evening candlelight tour of the Civil War ironclad.The event ...
This week 150 years ago in the Civil War, the Union lamented another kind of loss beyond its defeat at Fredericksburg. On Dec. 12, 1862, the USS Cairo — an ironclad river gunboat — was struck by two ...
The USS Cairo pulls up to the banks of the Mississippi River in 1862. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command During the American Civil War, huge metal monsters roamed the Mississippi River. Called ...
1862 - A Confederate torpedo (mine) sinks USS Cairo in the Yazoo River. 1937 - Japanese aircraft sink USS Panay (PR 5) in the Yangtze River near Nanking, China. 1941 - The Naval Air Transport Service ...