Of all people who visit here I am certainly among those who recognize the "click-bait" nature of some of these articles.
As many of you know I am a 5-7 year "self-quarantine" type due to prevailing health issues. Worse still, I never leave the room I'm in as this post is penned. No kitchen, living room, outside, etc. My adventures are limited to trips to/from the doctor and hospital (when necessary). So, lots of time to pick through the rubbish piles of so-called "news". It is infuriating to mush your way through 30-35 pages of crap (while getting tripped into the occasional miss-click due to the jumping screen positions that cause you to "invite" yourself to visit some medical, or insurance or other useless link) to get to the one "leader" that convinced you to jump into the sheep-dip to begin with.
Having said this, the guys on the recovery team who represented the State of SC on this project did a fine job, but the real story goes way back before their involvement and it amazes me that anyone could assemble such an article and miss/omit absolutely all of the principles behind the story. The principles were all there along with the guys from the state of SC and the Clemson/Lasch Center recovery teams. Every one of them was wet with sweat and or water from the Pee Dee in the doing.
Yes, Carl, we (Catesby, Parker & I) were all delighted to be invited. I think the recovery exercise started out as a "closed" event but by the morning of the 29th there was an impressive crowd assembled.
And while I'm at it, it has been a bit of a puzzle to me as to why those deciding such matters would place the three wonderfully restored tubes on naval gun trucks instead of the period proper carriages?! It is possible to imagine the Dahlgren tube on a truck, but a Marsilly would have been the better choice. To put any Brooke tube on anything other than a pivot (even a rough mock-up) does not do justice to the history of the guns.
IMHO.
