Fellow Coasties,

Hey all has anyone ever seen any guns like these sitting around the Coast Guard, in front of a building, back in a store room, just taking up space somewhere? Apparently as the story goes some old guns like these were brought aboard American Shoal lighthouses' maintenance deck some time in the late fifties by USCG personnel. The guns were bronze with ornate dolphins on them. There is a private company that has been looking for a galleon sunk in 1563, near American Shoal, Lower Florida Keys and they feel they are close to the main wreck. These old guns recovered by the Coast Guard may have some significance to their ship. I have contacted ANT Key West to see if they may have any history but wanted to know if any cannon cockers may have stumbled on anything like these in our careers. We tend to be the only ones that look at stuff like that. Probably long gone but figured we could ask. I received an E-Mail from the historian's office. Anyone?






Please pass this on if you may know anyone that might have an interest.

GMC Steve G. Wilson
United States Coast Guard Training Center Yorktown
(757) 856-2839
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I've posted this in a couple places here in Freds Place to cover all bases. Please feel free to reply or call if you have information at all or can think of anything.

GM1 Adam Weimerskirch
TRACEN YORKTOWN

We had eight of those on my first ship......

Did I mention I'm "Old Guard"?

Hey, Ex_, those replaced the catapults you started with, right?

Yep, replaced when we went through FRAM....