Lost Overboard

Lost Overboard (HM2JXO)

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N 38° 47.248', W 76° 13.212'

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Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum

Hundreds of armed schooners sailed from Baltimore during the War of 1812, carrying cannons like this to defend themselves or to capture a poorly defended British merchantman. Baltimore was such a hub of privateering trade that it attracted a British attack on September 13-14, 1814. The British never got past the guns of Fort McHenry and gave up after 30 hours, inspiring Francis Scott Key to pen "The Star-Spangled Banner."

More than a century later, around 1930, this short 9-pound gun (so called because it could fire a 9-pound iron ball) was rediscovered while dredging Baltimore harbor off Fort McHenry possibly dropped by one of the wartime armed schooners.
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HM NumberHM2JXO
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Placed ByChesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
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Date Added Sunday, August 25th, 2019 at 8:02pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)18S E 394023 N 4293898
Decimal Degrees38.78746667, -76.22020000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 38° 47.248', W 76° 13.212'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds38° 47' 14.88" N, 76° 13' 12.72" W
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