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Topics => History => Topic started by: Libertas on January 13, 2012, 01:41:48 PM

Title: The Hunley
Post by: Libertas on January 13, 2012, 01:41:48 PM

Cool!

http://news.yahoo.com/complete-civil-war-submarine-unveiled-first-time-004714070.html (http://news.yahoo.com/complete-civil-war-submarine-unveiled-first-time-004714070.html)

 ::thumbsup::

Title: Re: The Hunley
Post by: charlesoakwood on January 13, 2012, 05:37:28 PM

Power to weight ratio; awesome.

Title: Re: The Hunley
Post by: Alphabet Soup on January 13, 2012, 06:37:03 PM

Can you imagine the cajones it took to go down in that thing - especially after one entire crew drowned?!

Title: Re: The Hunley
Post by: Sectionhand on January 14, 2012, 03:34:50 AM

I first learned about the Hunley watching an episode of "The Great Adventure" about 1962 . It was a program which depicted in dramatized form important episodes in American history . I was a young Civil War buff at the time so it was right up my alley . BTW , Jackie Cooper portrayed Lt. Dixon and George "Goober" Lindsey was one of the crewman .

Too bad a program like that just wouldn't fly today .

Title: Re: The Hunley
Post by: charlesoakwood on January 14, 2012, 10:46:51 AM

http://www.charlestonillustrated.com/hunley/gallery.htm (http://www.charlestonillustrated.com/hunley/gallery.htm)