This 32-pound Blakely cannon was recovered from the wreck of the Confederate warship CSS Alabama off the coast of Cherbourg, France, in 1994. A conservator observes the cannon in its shipping crate at the Naval History and Heritage Command laboratory warehouse in Washington, D.C.
CSS Alabama Cannon
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Courtesy of the U.S. Navy. Photograph by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kenneth G. Takada.
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