New York, NY – Bomb Squad Called for Civil War-Era Bomb on Governors Island

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    New York, NY – The NYPD’s Bomb Squad had to be called out to a construction site on Governors Island, where an unexploded cannonball was found some construction workers. They determined that the cannonball was “safe,” the Police Department said.

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    Workers were digging in the water at Governors Island and the cannonball, believed to be from the Civil War time period, was found in dirt that was scooped up by their backhoe, officials said.


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    12 years ago

    Is this a joke?
    Cannonballs are not explosives. They are projectiles.
    If you load a cannon with gunpowder and add a cannonball, you could fire the cannonball.
    A loose cannonball is by definition inert.

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    12 years ago

    The Governors Island blog has now been updated with some cool old photos, and more details on today’s find. They write, “While doing construction work near Soissons Dock, workers found an old cannon ball near the seawall. NYPD came out to assess the cannonball and determined that it was a solid shot made of iron and contained no explosive material. Since it was deemed safe, it can now join other cannonballs that visitors see on the Island, like those near Fort Jay.” They believe it “could have possibly come from the 15 inch cannons in Fort Jay or Castle Williams, but it is more likely that they were left over from when the Island was an arsenal and surplus cannonballs were sent here. In historic photos of Army era, one can see that cannonballs were very prevalent and were often piled in front of buildings or used for decorative purposes on lawns.”

    12 years ago

    It’s a wonderful destination for the Yidden during the summer, for the unspoiled ones that don’t leave the city.