West Point Foundry Parrott Rifles Revisited

MaritimeQuest - Daily Event for August 30 "August 30, 1943 the USS Hornet CV-12 was launched at Newport News. Laid down as Kearsarge she was renamed Hornet in honor of the Hornet CV-8 which was lost on Oct. 27, 1942." Hornet was the carrier that recovered the Apollo 11 space capsule on July 24, 1969 after the first moon landing. She also recovered Apollo 12 before heading into the reserve fleet and obscurity. Doomed to the cutting torch in 1993 Hornet was herself rescued when the company who bought her defaulted and the Navy repossessed the carrier and donated her as a museum ship. The Hornet is on display in Alameda, Ca." The USS Kearsarge sank the CSS Alabama off Cherbourg, France. At a Swiss court, millions of dollars were paid in damages by the British government, who had permitted the swift CSS Alabama to be built in one of its shipyards, against treaty. It sunk many ships. The cemetery in Cherbourg has some of the crew members of the CSS Alabama buried in it. Cherbourg-Octeville Site: The Wreck of the Alabama