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Wreckage of Confederate warship CSS Georgia is raised





SAVANNAH, Ga. –  The armored skeleton of a Confederate warship that spent 150 years at the bottom of the Savanah River in Georgia is being raised to the surface one 5-ton chunk at a time. Navy divers began work midweek retrieving an estimated 250,000 pounds of armored siding from the wreckage of the CSS Georgia. Confederate troops scuttled the ironclad gunship in December 1864 to prevent its capture by Union troops taking Savannah. Navy Chief Warrant Officer 3 Jason Potts says his crew began Wednesday breaking down three large sections of armored siding into 20 smaller chunks and raising them to the surface. The team has already recovered four cannons, the ship's propeller and other artifacts. The CSS Georgia is being recovered as part of a $703 million deepening of the Savannah harbor. August 16 http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/08/16/navy-divers-raising-armored-wreckage-confederate-warship-css-georgia-in-5-ton/










The salvage operation of the Confederate warship began just around the New Moon of Aug. 14. A chart for the New Moon at Savannah is shown here. The luminaries [21le] are conjunct a retrograde Venus[23le] and the star Malus in the mast of the Celestial Ship Argo.

Among Argo Navis’ themes  are voyages, storms, shipwrecks and drowning. These stars were transited at a Nov, 440 CE Solar Eclipse when the city of Ys in Brittany was “submerged in great flood”; at a December 1703  solar eclipse at the peak of a savage hurricane that devastated  south England and its fleet: more than 300 ships, 30,000 sailors lost their lives; in 1707 when Sir Clowdisley Shovell, commanding an English fleet, miscalculated their position: in heavy fog driven by gales they crashed into Western Rocks of the Scilly Isles; when the US Navy was founded in 1775; in 1857 when the SS Central America  sank east of Carolinas; at the discovery of two famous shipwrecks in 1985: the 363 year old Atocha and the legendary Titanic among many others. [1]


To the Mesoamericans Venus was the Goddess of War [2] and since a retrograde planet also refers to the past, we have here an old  warship in the news. On the MC [13cn] is the star Canopus, alpha Argo Navis – once again a reference to a ship. The MC is the reaction point of a T-square with Uranus-Pluto-TNP Zeus aligned with the angles.  The TNP Zeus is linked to the military while Uranus-Pluto is a combination which refers to revolutions  so that we have a clear reference to a ship from the American Civil War.

[1] Secrets of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg (v.1, p.543-9)

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