Inside Crew Hl Hunley

And it turns out the crew of the confederate vessel accidentally killed themselves.

Inside crew hl hunley. Park charles mchugh henry beard john marshall charles l. The mysterious deaths of all onboard on the hl hunley which sunk on february 17 1864 outside charleston harbor south carolina during the civil war has finally been solved. Spraguethe second crew was lost on october 15 1863 when the hunley failed to surface during a mock attack killing all 8 crewmen. T he hunley s torpedo was not a self propelled bomb but a copper keg of 135 pounds of gunpowder held ahead and slightly below the hunley s bow on a 16 foot pole called a spar.

Hunley s second crew in magnolia cemetery second crew. Visitors came from around the world including australia germany france and great britain. The burial was attended by tens of thousands of people who came to honor the crew and witness this historic moment. Hunley robert brockbank joseph patterson thomas w.

Made out of 40 feet of bulletproof iron the h l. The confederacy lost 21 crewmen in three sinkings of hunley during her short career. In a career of just. The hunley s eight man crew was then laid to rest next to others who lost their lives on hunley test missions.

Hunley was a confederate submarine with a crew of eight. The shock wave created by. They were buried alongside the h. The submarine sank after torpedoing the uss housatonic.

Suspended inside the css tiny was a small pressure gauge which revealed how the sub s own torpedo blast could have killed the hunley crew without leaving a lasting mark. Neyland takes john davis on a tour of the hunley while she is in mid excavation and points out some of her most technologically advanced attributes.