>>896335>I seriously doubt that desu. Although that would be pretty cool if it turned out to be true.it may very well be.
I live in the St Louis area, and in the flood of 1993 a old military ship and a couple empty barges broke loose, hit one of the major St Louyis city bridges, and sank. And all three of them are still sitting where they went down.
here is the wiki page for the navy ship-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Inaugural_%28AM-242%29IIRC, one barge broke loose and struck the other two ships, knocking them loose. Im too lazy to find the newspaper articles.
the barges sank right after hitting a bridge abutment. I dunno where on a map they are now, but they were tethered right at the stairs in front of the gateway arch. One of the barges had a flat top surface and was used as a landing area for helipcopter rides; you could buy fly-around trips in a helicopter back then.
The barges were full-size ones too--like, 120 by 30 yards. They were not small.
The reason they all got left was that the army corp of engineers said they were not in the way of the shipping channel, and the costs to recover them were too prohibitive for the owners to pay (with respect to what the ships were worth).
