Virginia, Maryland Honor Confederate Sailors Who Died Aboard Stricken Submarine (Hunley)

AP ^ | Mar. 27, 2004

[mylife]

[TXBubba]

The Hunley Commission declined to send remains because of concerns that if they were removed from Charleston, the descendants of a crew member could sue to take possession of them, Berenholtz said.

How horrible!!!

BTW thanks for the post.

[nuconvert]

[nuconvert]

An 8 man crew?
Talk about sardines........whew!

[Riley]

If anyone gets a couple of free hours in the Charleston area, go to the Lasch Conservation Center and see the CSS Hunley. It is an astoundingly preserved piece of history. I thoroughly enjoyed my visit last fall.

[Riley]

They have a partial mockup of the Hunley that you can get into in the Visitor Center. Very cool!

[nuconvert]

Is it really as small as it looks?

[mylife]

I got news for ya nuconvert they All pack you like sardines.

;^)

[mylife]

Scale mock up in Chareleston

[gdc314]

descendants of a crew member could sue to take possession of them

? WTF? Why on earth would they care if the families took custody of their ancestors bodies? The tone of this is creepy to me...

[nuconvert]

WOW. Thanks. That's looks mighty uncomfortable for an overnighter.

[Riley]

Sure seems that way inside. It's got a slightly larger vertical profile than a 55 gallon drum, so imagine you and seven of your closest friends doing heavy physical labor with no fresh air inside of a row of 55 gallon drums that are standing upright next to one another.

http://www.hunley.org/

You can only look down into a pool of water where they keep the actual Hunley. You can clearly see it, but you cannot actually touch the real one. You get a very good view though.

[nuconvert]

Wow. Hard to imagine those guys in there.

Conservation Center sounds neat.

[Riley]

It was fascinating. As you go in, there is are kioska selling Civil War and Hunley related things, the hull mockup, a small theater continuously showing the TNT move "The Hunley", and a Confederate Color Guard that is changed every fifteen minutes to the tone of a ship's bell.

[NCC-1701]

All your sardines belongs to us.

[nuconvert]

Thanks for the link.

[mylife]

My First Boat

Put 100 Guys in here

[nuconvert]

wow. Looked up some info on it.
It was decommissioned in 2000.....

I really like sub movies. Don't know how guys can stand being in them for so long though.

Thanks for your service.

[mylife]

hehehe Its an adventure to be sure.

I was A direct support rider. We would come on (about 20 of us) in addition to the regular crew. this additional cramping of quarters did not go down well with ships company!

The didn't like us breathing their air!

There were bunking shortages which resulted in either placing some wood and a mattress atop torpedoes or "hotracking" with a shipmate. Hot racking is when you share a bunk. This isn't done at the same time, one sailor is on watch while the other sleeps then the process is reversed..the bed would still be warm hence "hotracking"