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Cleaned of encrustations, CSS Hunley becomes a real submarine
Stars and Stripes ^ | 9/17/15 | Ruane

Posted on 09/18/2015 6:20:27 AM PDT by pabianice

For more than a century, the CSS Hunley rested at the bottom of the ocean just outside Charleston harbor, its crew entombed, its hull gradually encased in hardening encrustations.

When it was raised 15 years ago off South Carolina, it looked more like a barnacled sea monster than the world's first operational submarine, sunk in battle during the winter of 1864.

The remains of its eight sailors were removed in 2001, but research has continued, and Thursday, a conservation team announced that experts have now removed more than half a ton of the encrustations.

The result: the Hunley has much of the look and menace of a modern sub and is clearly the ancestor of the U-boat and the nuclear submarine of today.

(Excerpt) Read more at stripes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: charleston; clivecussler; csshunley; deathtrap; godsgravesglyphs; southcarolina
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To: Charles Henrickson
I saw the film on the Hunley. Great film. I think the title was "The Hunley."

"Dead Wake" is an excellent book. I recently read "Death in the Baltic" about Wilhelm Gustloff, the deadliest sea tragedy ever.

41 posted on 09/19/2015 9:50:09 AM PDT by apocalypto
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To: SunkenCiv
Built about ten miles from where I am sitting presently.
42 posted on 09/19/2015 9:57:52 AM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: Charles Henrickson

Read that book this spring. Wonderful book and very well researched.


43 posted on 09/19/2015 9:59:25 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: pabianice

Wow, the things they could do 150 years ago. Just very cool.


44 posted on 09/19/2015 10:01:28 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: blam

...it’s a death trap, it’s a suicide rap...


45 posted on 09/19/2015 10:14:02 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: SunkenCiv

Very nice. Would love to see it one day. Actually, we have a trip to SC coming up soon, but the husband says Charleston is too far for a daytrip from where we are camping. Putting it on the list for next year’s trips.


46 posted on 09/19/2015 4:04:52 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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