"Hunley Revealed" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 17 Sep 2015 6:31 p.m. PST |
The hull of the first submarine in history to sink an enemy warship has been cleaned and revealed for the first time in 150 years.After a year of painstaking work, scientists using small chisels and hand tools have removed encrusted sand, sediment and rust from the outside of the hand-cranked Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley. Now, the outside appears much as it did when the Hunley and its eight-man crew rammed a spar with a powder charge into the USS Housatonic and sank the Union blockade ship off South Carolina in 1864… link |
| 45thdiv | 18 Sep 2015 4:00 a.m. PST |
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Big Red  | 21 Sep 2015 5:29 p.m. PST |
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