Russian cannons from the Crimean War have been found on the seabed off the coast of the Bahamas. This was reported by the Allen Exploration Ocean Dispatches magazine.
The Allen Exploration underwater expedition discovered 24 cast-iron cannons, including rare cannons from the Crimean War (1853-1856).
One cannon depicts a double-headed eagle. Another cannon had manufacturing data. The cannon was cast at the Aleksandrovsky Plant in Petrozavodsk under the supervision of Scottish master Adam Armstrong and has serial number 13798.
Researchers believe that these cannons could have taken part in the wars with Napoleon and were already obsolete by the time Sevastopol was defended during the Crimean War.
These cannons could have become a trophy of the British army. When Britain did not have enough cast iron to produce weapons during World War II, it was decided to send the Russian cannons for remelting. They could have been cargo from a ship sailing from Britain to the United States during World War II.
The article says that the fate of these Russian guns is a forgotten memory of two wars: the Crimean War and World War II.
The complex history makes these guns, sunken off the northern coast of the Bahamas, not only an important international find, but a unique example of global underwater heritage, Allen Exploration concluded.