Discovering the Wreck of the SS Georgiana
History Daily
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🗓️ 19 March 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
March 19, 1965. The wreck of the Confederate blockade runner SS Georgiana is discovered by a teenage diver exactly 102 years after she sank on her maiden voyage.
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| 0:11.6 | com. It's the night of March 19th, 1863. |
| 0:25.0 | The American Civil War is two years old, |
| 0:28.0 | and off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina, |
| 0:30.0 | the Confederate warship SS Georgiana steams through the darkness. |
| 0:35.0 | Standing on deck, the ship's Captain A.B. Davidson peers out into the night. |
| 0:40.0 | The sky brightens as a distant cannon fires. |
| 0:44.0 | Captain Davidson breathes a sigh of relief as the cannonball just misses his ship, |
| 0:49.0 | but it's no time to relax. |
| 0:51.0 | He knows they've been spotted, and soon every enemy vessel in the area will be upon |
| 0:55.9 | them. |
| 0:56.9 | Six months ago Confederate leaders ordered the construction of what they hoped would be the fastest |
| 1:01.4 | ship in their fleet. The SS Georgiana was designed to carry vital |
| 1:05.5 | war supplies to the Confederate Army using its speed to evade the Union blockade around the southern |
| 1:11.0 | states. Now that Georgiana has been finished, |
| 1:14.0 | and on its maiden voyage, Captain Davidson has the dangerous task of delivering the new |
| 1:18.5 | warship into Confederate territory. |
| 1:21.0 | Go, go, go, go, go! |
| 1:22.0 | Captain Davidson orders maximum speed. |
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