Allen X scubadivers justrecently discovered 24 Russian canons in the shallow water of the Little Bahama Bank
After knowing about the artifacts Carl Allen and his Allen Exploration group haveactually found in the waters around the Bahamas over the last anumberof years, I wasn’t stunned to hear he’d won the Explorer Award in Adventure and Environmental Ethics that was provided by The Explorers Club in partnership with Yacht Club de Monaco throughout the club’s 13th Environmental Symposium held in Monaco earlier this year.
In truth, the artifacts he and his group continue to recuperate from the wreck of the Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de la Maravillas that sank in 1656 are on displayscreen in the Bahamas Maritime Museum.
However, I was rather stunned to hear he and his group have likewise simply found 24 iron cannons that were assoonas fired by Russian forces versus Ottoman, English and French allies in the Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimean War from 1853 to 1855.
No one understands how 24 Russian canons from the 1800’s that were fired throughout the Crimean War ended up … [+] in under 30 feet of water in the Bahamas.
And I’m not the just one that was shocked. “We’ve discovered all kinds of undersea archaeology in the Bahamas,” Allen stated. “Everything from gold chains and amethysts the size of your thumb to clay tobacco pipelines. But royal Russian weapons fired in anger over 170 years ago? That’s spectacular.”
The cannons were found in the shallow water on the edge of the Little Bahama Bank. One bears a Tsarist double-headed eagle that was cast onto the barrel. The AllenX group likewise discovered a trunnion (a pivot that extends from the side of a cannon and rests on the carriage) that had damaged off another weapon. It’s engraved with 3 lines of Cyrillic text that shows it was made in a Russian foundry atsomepoint inbetween 1807 to 1819.
This cannon trunnion with Cyrillic text was found the undersea on the Little Bahamas Bank … [+] justrecently
While the story of how these particular Russian cannons came to rest under 30 feet of water on the Little Bahama Bank is unidentified. What the Allen X group does understand is after Russia was beat in the Crimean War, England and France took 4,000 cannons from the Siege of Sevastopol as spoils of war. In France, most of the cannons were melted down to make the Notre Dame de Franc