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Men find, drag torpedo 1,000 feet in Port Richmond
Inquirer Staff Report
A PennDot archaeological team arrived at a dig under I-95 this morning to find two men drinking beer and sitting on a 20-foot-long torpedo they apparently had found hours earlier in the Delaware River.
The archaeologists called police and the Bomb Squad evacuated the immediate area at Richmond and Cumberland Streets, near I-95.
The torpedo with the number 56 on its side was inert, but the men who found it will not be able to keep it because it is military ordnance.
Charles Metzger, a PennDot spokesman, pieced together the following story.
The team arrived at 7 a.m. and saw the pair sitting on the torpedo, beers in hand, on land between the dig and a Conrail yard.
The two were waiting for a third companion who had gone off to get a vehicle to take the torpedo away.
They told the archaeological team they had found the torpedo in the river and spent something like six hours dragging it about 1,000 feet to the work site.
Police said the torpedo weighed 800 to 1,000 pounds and had a hole in its tip.
The surrounding area used to be the home of Cramp's Ship Yard, where submarines and other warships were built during World War II.
The archaeological dig is part of the construction of a new Girard Avenue interchange on I-95.
Metzger said that if the torpedo had been live, officials would have had to close I-95 150 feet away.
No charges are expected, police said.
The bomb squad removed the torpedo from the site, but not until it fell once from the claw of the lift device used to load the metal tube into a truck.
Men find, drag torpedo 1,000 feet in Port Richmond
Inquirer Staff Report
A PennDot archaeological team arrived at a dig under I-95 this morning to find two men drinking beer and sitting on a 20-foot-long torpedo they apparently had found hours earlier in the Delaware River.
The archaeologists called police and the Bomb Squad evacuated the immediate area at Richmond and Cumberland Streets, near I-95.
The torpedo with the number 56 on its side was inert, but the men who found it will not be able to keep it because it is military ordnance.
Charles Metzger, a PennDot spokesman, pieced together the following story.
The team arrived at 7 a.m. and saw the pair sitting on the torpedo, beers in hand, on land between the dig and a Conrail yard.
The two were waiting for a third companion who had gone off to get a vehicle to take the torpedo away.
They told the archaeological team they had found the torpedo in the river and spent something like six hours dragging it about 1,000 feet to the work site.
Police said the torpedo weighed 800 to 1,000 pounds and had a hole in its tip.
The surrounding area used to be the home of Cramp's Ship Yard, where submarines and other warships were built during World War II.
The archaeological dig is part of the construction of a new Girard Avenue interchange on I-95.
Metzger said that if the torpedo had been live, officials would have had to close I-95 150 feet away.
No charges are expected, police said.
The bomb squad removed the torpedo from the site, but not until it fell once from the claw of the lift device used to load the metal tube into a truck.
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