[rockrr]

I don’t post new threads that often but this article had some interesting pictures in it.

Enjoy!

[Repeal The 17th]

Damn Rebels...

[usconservative]

The sub was raised from the ocean floor in 2000, adding to the mystery when it became clear that there was no damage to the hull itself.

Not sure who's left on FR from the Freeper Convention in Charleston, SC back in July/August of 2001. There was a fairly large group of us who went to see the Hunley as it sat in a salt water tank at that time. It's been so long ago I don't remember why it was kept in that tank though it was before the bodies were removed from the submarine and before any scientific research was done directly on the sub itself. It was very interesting to see along with the exhibit around it. The history of the Hunley is quite fascinating, even for this damn' yankee.

[DiogenesLamp]

There is a Freeper that actually worked on this. He provided pictures a year or so ago that shows the torpedo was actually solid mounted onto an iron spar, and was a contact detonation device. As soon as it blew up, the shock wave traveling down the spar killed everyone inside.

I forgot the Freeper's name, but perhaps he will identify himself in this thread.

[Captain Walker]

The author is described as a "blast injury specialist".

How many of those people does one ever meet?

[taxcontrol]

Takes a special kind of courage to crawl into a little metal tube that sank twice before.

[Repeal The 17th]

From the article...
“The experiment nearly ended in disaster
when Lance and her boyfriend were driving
with 20 pounds of black powder in the trunk of her car,
after a serious crash on the highway right in front of them.
Lance slammed on the brakes and narrowly avoided
being rear-ended by the truck behind her,
a collision that would have likely
triggered a deadly explosion.”
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Bullshit...

[Flick Lives]

Interesting and detailed article. Thanks for posting.

[Chainmail]

Damn the torpedoes!

[vetvetdoug]

The researchers found the coin with the indention that saved Lt. Dixon's life at Shiloh on his body inside the Hunley. That in itself was quite remarkable.

[rlmorel]

Ping, FRiend! Didn’t you have some involvement in this?

[Reddy]

I’ve always been fascinated by the bravery of those who went down on the Hunley. It’s kind of comforting to know they didn’t suffer.

[MacNaughton]

Thanks for posting. Have had a life-long interest in the H.L. Hunley since watching the premier episode ("The Hunley") of CBS's "The Great Adventure" on 9/27/1963. Finally made the trip to North Charleston in 2007 to view the Hunley at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center.

Loved the pictures. It is fascinating that to see the best pictures of events in the U.S., be they political, criminal, etc., I end up at British web-sites, e.g., UK Daily Mail.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

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[Karl Spooner]

A remarkable piece of southern engineering.

[grey_whiskers]

“You arrogant ass. You’ve killed US!”

[bitt]

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[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[BroJoeK]

from the article: "Lance believes that the crew was killed nearly instantly by the pressure wave from their own torpedo."

taxcontrol: "Takes a special kind of courage to crawl into a little metal tube that sank twice before."

Tailguy: "The Hunley crew lost on the combat mission sailed with the knowledge that their vessel had already claimed the lives of 2 other crews.
Incredible bravery."

rimorel: "I have always had a great deal of respect for men who serve in the submarine force."

Submariner duty was always very dangerous:

"During World War II, the U.S. Navy's submarine service suffered the highest casualty percentage of all the American armed forces, losing one in five submariners.[3]
Some 16,000 submariners served during the war, of whom 375 officers and 3131 enlisted men were killed.[4] "

The US lost 52 submarines during WWII and, by my count, 67 total since the Brits sank the Turtle in October 1776.
Sadly, at least a dozen of those were accidental collisions, foundering, friendly fire and up to four were sunk by our own torpedoes circling around!

The CSS Hunley's contemporary & similar design, the USS Alligator foundered & sank in 1863 without having done damage to anyone but itself.
As best I can tell, the first US Navy submarine to sink an enemy ship was US Gudgeon, which sank a Japanese submarine in January 1942.

USS Alligator, foundered & sank in 1863 off Cape Hatteras, about 200 miles from the Hunley.

[windcliff]

ping