PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Before the CSS Hunley was what it is today the CSS Hunley was a small submarine that didn't have much to it but letting people in for rides, later on a researcher, researched the submarine for most of his life, Mark Ragan, also a historian that discovers the true history of objects, Mark also had the opportunities to go down with the submarine and explore what the sea underground has to offer seeing everything from the CSS Hunley, Mark also made drawings of what he saw from being in the submarine and it helped to further improve what they could make out of it. Mark was quoted saying "The bow almost has a razor-like texture. It slopes back very gradually. It is much more streamlined than I originally thought" as he was describing what he had thought about the submarine.
The CSS Hunley was a submarine of the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. The Hunley demonstrated the advantages and the dangers of undersea warfare. The CSS Hunley was named after its inventor, Horace Lawson Hunley. The Hunley was nearly 40 feet in length, and was launched in July, 1863. The Hunley first sank August 29th of 1863, during test runs, killing 5 members of the crew, later then sank October 15th of 1863, killing the 8 members in the second crew, including Horace himself. February 17th 1864, the Hunley attacked and sunk the 1240- short ton screw sloop USS Housatonic, which was on the Union, soon after the Hunley sunk again, killing the 8 members of the third crew. The Hunley was lifted out the Charleston Harbor and put on display at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center in North Charleston, South Carolina.
The builders of the CSS Hunley were know as, Horace Lawson Hunley, James McClintock, and Baxter Watson, it all started when Hunley was a businessman, he had realized the importance of keeping the supply lines with Europe open in the way that the confederacy understood, the North had much easier ways to get shipments from Europe, Hunley knew that if the South were to succeed then he had to do something, and that was when Hunley decided he needed to join, James McClintock, and Baxter Watson to design and finance a new submarine to get better shipments to succeed better than the North. Horace gave up more than his fortune and died later on at 40, when the submarine was being tested and the sub was trapped at the bottom of Charleston Harbor in South Carolina.
The Hunley was designed for a crew of eight, seven to turn the hand-cranked propeller and one to steer and direct the boat. Each end was equipped with ballast tanks that could be flooded by valves or by hand pumps. Extra ballast was added through the use of iron weights bolted to the underside of the hull. The hull was about 4 feet in height, the hatches estimated about 16.5 inches wide and nearly 21 inches long. The Hunley itself is approximately 40 Feet long.
Michael Cane
Nicholas Davis
Frank Doyle
Charles Hasker (survived)
John Kelly
Lt. John A. Payne (survived)
Absolum Williams
William Robinson (survived)
These were all 8 members of the first crew, the submarine was ready to attack on the Union when the disaster struck, and the submarine was sunk off the end of Fort Johnson, 3 members escaped, 5 drowned, later on Charles Hasker reported, Lt. John A. Payne, who was in charge, accidentally stepped on the lever controlling the dive planes causing the submarine to dive while the hatches were still open.
Horace Hunley - captain
Robert Brookbank
Joseph Patterson
Thomas W. Park
Charles McHugh
Henry Baird
John Marshall
Charles L. Sprague
The second attempt was also to attack the Union, the Hunley again sank during a routine diving exercise, icy water began to spil into the vessel causing the submarine to sink, if the crew had known the valve was opened, they could had closed it before the water had gotten in and down to the vessel.
Lt. George E. Dixon
Arnold Becker
Corporal J. F Carlsen
Frank Collins
Lumpkin
Miller
James A. Wick
Joseph Ridgaway
No one now is really sure why the submarine sank for the third time, but it was also there to attack the Union, the submarine did attack the Union and succeeded as planned, but shortly after succeeding the CSS Hunley sunk.
The CSS Hunley now is at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center, it was finally brought back up from under the water in the 2000's, many people go around to see the CSS Hunley and read about all the history about its name, age, builders, attacks, and many other things.
