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It will be interesting to compare the real Hunley submersible with the reconstructed replicas (IIRC, one is in Columbia, the other in Charleston).

I found this while looking at different Hunley links:

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Amazing. The original is larger than the replicas.

Wonder if they recovered the original rudder.

Re that `blueprint’ drawing that shows the moment of impact between the Housatonic and the Hunley & its torpedo: the depiction does nothing to show that this was a moment of white hot combat caught at a critical instant. The sailors on the ship were frantically firing at the submersible with small arms since their cannon were useless at that range.

At the same moment the Hunley crew were already furiously cranking in reverse to disengage & put distance between the Hunley and the explosion soon to follow.

And soon, both vessels would be resting on the harbor bottom.