[TXnMA]

"...the Freeper that posted the pictures last year had proof that the torpedo was permanently attached to the iron spar."

~~~~~~~~~

I expect that I was "the FReeper who posted the pictures" to which you referred...

See my #34, on this thread...

TXnMA
  

[MacNaughton]

Thanks for posting that image. I never thought to look at the bottom of the bow in that famous 1864 painting. Old ideas, even the false ones still hang on.

Example #1 - H.L. Hunley replica on the exterior grounds of the Charleston (SC) Museum.

Example #2 - H.L. Hunley replica at Battleship Park, Mobile, AL

[DiogenesLamp]

I expect that I was "the FReeper who posted the pictures" to which you referred...

Your name certainly looks familiar. I think you might be he.

Thank you for joining this discussion. I found your information to be very interesting and very eye opening.

Do you still have the pictures of the spar with the copper parts still attached to it? It was those pictures that convinced me that the thing was designed to blow up with the Sub still only a short distance away.

I don't know why the people of that era would not have recognized that as a suicide trap.