SC -- Charleston -- CSS Hunley restoration facility:
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- Description of Pictures: The HL Hunley was a Confederate submarine, one of the military firsts of the Civil War. After a lot of trials and errors and fatalities, all of which the chief financier Hunley blamed on human error, the submarine was towed into the waters around Charleston during the Union naval blockade. On the night of February 17, 1864, the Hunley rammed a 135-pound torpedo into the wooden side of the USS Housatonic and sunk it, thus becoming the first submarine in the world to sink an enemy ship.
The HL Hunley headed back from the kill, displayed a lamp to coastal compatriots, and then disappeared. No one knows why it sunk but it did and no one could find it. In 1980, author Clive Cussler and his underwater team began their search for it. They found the vessel in 1995, about four miles off shore. In mid-summer 2000, they raised it to the surface and moved it into a conservation facility in North Charleston.
There's now a joint project by the Friends of the Hunley, the US Navy, the state of South Carolina, and a number of private investors to study and restore the craft. The bodies of the sailors were found inside at their normal positions; the bodies are being examined and they will be buried in town. There's a daily ceremony where Confederate honor guard reenactors do the "tomb of the unknown soldier" thing in the lobby. You're not allowed to take pictures of the actual sub or any of its relics because the National Geographic has exclusive photographic rights to the work. Once the ship is stabilized, they hope to have it have its own little museum, something which seems a bit extreme to me.
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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- HUN_030824_02.JPG: This is a mock-up of what the inside of the sub would have looked like
- HUN_030824_16.JPG: The honor guard for the so-far unburied bodies from the sinking. Note the blue light in the background. That's supposed to represent the lantern that the crew used to indicate success to the land teams. That was the last signal from the boat.
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