Civil War Sub Reveals Human Remains
During conservation of the American Civil War submarine, more clues of the H.L. Hunley mystery are being revealed.
Researchers in a North Charleston, South Carolina, laboratory, on Wednesday unveiled the crew compartment. It had been sealed by more than a century of ocean exposure and encrusted sediment.
Johanna Rivera, one of the conservators, told CNN affiliate WCIV-TV in Charleston, It's that 'wow' moment when you step back and realize what you're doing.
The Confederate Navy's Hunley was the first submarine to sink a ship in battle. But the Hunley also went down, with all eight crew members perishing.
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H.L. Hunley was a submarine of the Confederate States of America that played a small part in the American Civil War, but a large role in the history of naval warfare. The Hunley demonstrated both the advantages and the dangers of undersea warfare. She was the first combat submarine to sink an enemy warship, although the Hunley was not completely submerged and was lost at some point following her successful attack. The Confederacy lost 21 crewmen in three sinkings of the Hunley during her short career. The submarine was named for her inventor, Horace Lawson Hunley, shortly after she was taken into service under the control of the Confederate Army at Charleston, South Carolina.
H. L. Hunley, nearly 40 feet (12 m) long, was built at Mobile, Alabama, and launched in July 1863. She was then shipped by rail on August 12, 1863 to Charleston, South Carolina. Hunley (then called Fish Boat) sank on August 29, 1863, during a training exercise, killing five members of her crew. She sank again on October 15, 1863, killing all eight of her second crew, including H. L. Hunley himself, who was aboard at the time, even though he was not enlisted in the Confederate armed forces. Both times the Hunley was raised and returned to service. On February 17, 1864, Hunley attacked and sank the 1240-short ton (1124 metric tons) screw sloop USS Housatonic on Union blockade duty in Charleston's outer harbor. Soon after, Hunley sank for unknown reasons, killing all eight of her third crew. This time, the innovative ship was lost.
Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley upright after almost 150 years; no obvious clues to sinking. The Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley rests on its side as workers adjust slings to move it upright on Wednesday, June 22, 1011 at a conservation lab in North Charleston, S.C. When the process is completed, the hand-cranked sub will be upright for the first time since it sank with its crew of eight in 1864.
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The restoration continues... It took a lot of guts and determination to climb into this crude sub and go to war... A far cry from the subs I served aboard during the cold war... North or South we are best served to remember they were all Americans...
H.L. Hunley was a submarine of the Confederate States of America that played a small part in the American Civil War, but a large role in the history of naval warfare. The Hunley demonstrated both the advantages and the dangers of undersea warfare. She was the first combat submarine to sink an enemy warship, although the Hunley was not completely submerged and was lost at some point following her successful attack. The Confederacy lost 21 crewmen in three sinkings of the Hunley during her short career. The submarine was named for her inventor, Horace Lawson Hunley, shortly after she was taken into service under the control of the Confederate Army at Charleston, South Carolina.
H. L. Hunley, nearly 40 feet (12 m) long, was built at Mobile, Alabama, and launched in July 1863. She was then shipped by rail on August 12, 1863 to Charleston, South Carolina. Hunley (then called Fish Boat) sank on August 29, 1863, during a training exercise, killing five members of her crew. She sank again on October 15, 1863, killing all eight of her second crew, including H. L. Hunley himself, who was aboard at the time, even though he was not enlisted in the Confederate armed forces. Both times the Hunley was raised and returned to service. On February 17, 1864, Hunley attacked and sank the 1240-short ton (1124 metric tons) screw sloop USS Housatonic on Union blockade duty in Charleston's outer harbor. Soon after, Hunley sank for unknown reasons, killing all eight of her third crew. This time, the innovative ship was lost.
Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley upright after almost 150 years; no obvious clues to sinking. The Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley rests on its side as workers adjust slings to move it upright on Wednesday, June 22, 1011 at a conservation lab in North Charleston, S.C. When the process is completed, the hand-cranked sub will be upright for the first time since it sank with its crew of eight in 1864.
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Recon Secrets of the Sea USS Monitor and the H.L Hunley
Two fascinating Civil War era vessels, which eluded search efforts for more than a hundred years, are brought to life in this story of loss, recovery and restoration. The USS Monitor and the H.L Hunley became virtual time capsules when the ocean claimed them in the 1860's. Marine archeologists are working to find clues about their final moments and to share their stories with the public.
Two lost warships from the U.S. Civil War were the subjects of long-standing searches because of their historic status to Americans. Monitor was built in a 100-day rush to counter the threat of the Confederate ironclad Virginia (constructed from remnants of USS Merrimac). They met in combat off Hampton Roads, Virginia, in March 1862. The battle heralded the end of naval combat between wooden ships. With its low hull and rotating turret, Monitor was an engineering triumph, albeit one with flaws that became apparent nine months later, when it foundered off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, taking 16 of its crew with it. The tiny “cheesebox on a raft” was not forgotten, however, and searches by dedicated volunteers finally rediscovered the vessel in 1973, 240 feet down. Hunley, one of several submarines built by each side during the Civil War, gained fame on February 17, 1864, when it attacked USS Housatonic in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, and became the first submarine to sink another vessel in combat. Decades of searches culminated in its rediscovery in 1995. Monitor, designated the first National Marine Sanctuary in the United States, was surveyed and test-excavated before a congressionally directed effort by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Navy raised its propeller, engine, and armored turret. Now housed in the USS Monitor Center at the Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Virginia, Monitor’s machinery and turret are undergoing conservation and analysis, while the rest of the wreck remains 17 miles offshore in the sanctuary. Hunley, excavated and raised in 2000 after analysis by the National Park Service’s Submerged Resources Center and the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, has also been the subject of intense study and conservation, at the Warren L. Lasch Conservation Center outside of Charleston. Undocumented aspects of each vessel’s construction, damage from battle and sinking, and life on board came to light. Hunley, for example, was shown to be an incredibly sophisticated craft, not a crude instrument of war fashioned from boiler iron, as some historians had suggested. Remains of crew members were found in both ships. Forensic work has revealed details about them and, in the case of the Hunley crew, suggests that these men may have died when they brought their craft to settle on the bottom, perhaps for a rest after the crew hand-cranked their sub into battle, only to succumb to foul air.
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A team of divers claims to have found the hull of a submarine dating from the American Civil War. The Confederate submarine Hunley was the first sub to sink a warship; its whereabouts was unknown for more than 130 years. Researchers say the intact hull lies under five metres of water near Charleston, South Carolina. The Hunley was propelled by eight men operating hand cranks and could move at 6 kilometres an hour. It sank three times and killed all three crews, including its inventor, Horace Hunley. The submarine disappeared on its last voyage on the night of 17 February 1864 after ramming a torpedo packed with 45 kilograms of black powder into the stern of the Union Frigate USS Housatonic. The sub then backed off and detonated the torpedo with a rope. The Housatonic sank within five minutes with the loss of five crew. The Hunley also stayed down.
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(CHARLSTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, USA) VS of replica of Hunley submarine on display. Diver Ralph Wilbanks SOT on how his team discovered the submarine, adding It's the Hunley!
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Funeral for Confederate crew of submarine HL Hunley
1. Pallbearers in Confederate uniforms standing by caskets
2. Men singing Amazing Grace
3. Pallbearers loading casket (coffin) onto caisson (horse-drawn gun carriage)
4. Horsemen in Confederate uniforms leading caisson carrying casket
5. Men dressed as Confederate soldiers marching
6. Women wearing black Civil War-era dresses marching
7. Pallbearers carrying casket into cemetery
8. Pallbearers carrying caskets into cemetery
9. Men in Confederate uniforms saluting
10. Pallbearers lowering casket into mass grave
11. Priest leading prayer
12. Men in Confederate uniforms firing volley
13. Bugler playing bugle call
14. Men in Confederate uniforms standing with heads bowed as bugler plays Taps
15. Descendants of submarine H.L. Hunley crew members tossing roses into mass grave
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The remains of the crew of the American civil war era submarine the H.L. Hunley were laid to rest on Saturday.
The sub was the first in history to sink an enemy warship.
Thousands of men in the colours of the civil war, Confederate gray and Union blue and women in black hoop skirts and veils escorted the remains.
The coffins of the crew members, draped in Confederate flags, were first taken to Charleston's Battery and placed in a semicircle with a wreath set in front of each.
Then, a column of the uniformed re-enactors stretching a mile and half (two and a half kilometres) took the crew of the Hunley to their final resting place in Magnolia Cemetery, about five miles (eight kilometres) north. It took the column more than an hour to file into the cemetery.
After horse-drawn caissons (gun carriages) brought the coffins to the breezy, oak-shrouded plot, rifles crackled and cannons rumbled across the marsh.
Fourteen governors from southern states were invited to the ceremony, but declined to attend. Most cited scheduling conflicts, but some observers speculated they may be wary of the political implications of attending an event with thousands of Confederate re-enactors.
The Confederate side of the American civil war opposed the abolition of slavery.
The hand-cranked Hunley made history on February 17, 1864, when it rammed a spar with a black powder charge into the Union blockade ship Housatonic outside Charleston Harbour. Another 50 years would pass before another sub sank an enemy warship.
Despite its success in sinking the Housatonic, the Hunley never returned from the mission. The reason why the Hunley sank remains unknown.
The Hunley was found off the South Carolina coast nine years ago and was raised in 2000 and brought to a conservation lab at the old Charleston Naval Base.
The remains of crew were not buried immediately because authorities wanted to positively identify each man - a lengthy process that included exhuming the bodies of crew members' relatives in order to match DNA samples.
About 40 relatives of Hunley crew members were in Charleston on Saturday.
The crew were buried in a common grave, lined up in the order in which they sat inside the sub.
Crew members' descendants filed past the grave and threw roses onto the caskets.
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Civil War Submarine Reveals More Clues, Human Remains
CNN has reported that more clues of the H.L. Hunley mystery are being revealed during conservation of the American Civil War submarine. Researchers in a North Charleston, South Carolina, laboratory on Wednesday unveiled the crew compartment -- which had been sealed by more than 130 years of ocean exposure and encrusted sediment. The Confederate Navy's Hunley was the first submarine to sink a ship in battle, sending the Housatonic to the ocean floor in February 1864. Five members of the Union vessel died; 150 others were rescued. All eight crew members of the Hunley perished.The conservation work, which started after the Hunley was discovered in 1995, has finally exposed the sub's entire crank shaft -- used to propel the vessel by its crew.
The new findings give insight into how the submarine was operated, but the biggest mystery is still unsolved -- why did it sink after its successful attack?
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Civil War Submarine Reveals More Clues, Human Remains
CNN has reported that more clues of the H.L. Hunley mystery are being revealed during conservation of the American Civil War submarine. Researchers in a North Charleston, South Carolina, laboratory on Wednesday unveiled the crew compartment -- which had been sealed by more than 130 years of ocean exposure and encrusted sediment. The Confederate Navy's Hunley was the first submarine to sink a ship in battle, sending the Housatonic to the ocean floor in February 1864. Five members of the Union vessel died; 150 others were rescued. All eight crew members of the Hunley perished.The conservation work, which started after the Hunley was discovered in 1995, has finally exposed the sub's entire crank shaft -- used to propel the vessel by its crew.
The new findings give insight into how the submarine was operated, but the biggest mystery is still unsolved -- why did it sink after its successful attack?
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