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Indeed I did.
Before the Hunley was raised, I created and hosted an online forum which included archæologists, engineers & historians on the Hunley team. It was we who first determined that the torpedo was deployed on a 18 foot metal pipe from the bottom of the bow, pivoted vertically on a y-shaped yoke, and deployed at a downward angle of thirty (30) degrees for attack.
Summary "Slide" from the Forum...
In fact, our recommendations contributed to the "spar"'s being removed and raised before the Hunley was.
When I visited the Hunley in the Lasch Lab in Charleston in 2013, I learned that the torpedo had been bolted solidly to the spar -- so that the Hunley was only 16-18 feet from the explosion of the torpedo's 130 lbs of cannon powder.
Since then, I've determined analytically that it was Singer's torpedo design that was used, and I recently identified how the Singer "Lanyard-triggered" fuzes were readily converted to Contact-triggered function. (Bolting the torpedo to the spar necessitated Contact-triggered fuzing...)
Thanks for the ping! (I'm in general agreement with Rachel Lance, but my analysis includes physiological factors that she, apparently, didn't consider...)
Thanks for the ping!!!
TXnMA
