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Has the mystery of Confederate submarine that sank Union ship then vanished finally been solved afte
DailyMail.co.uk ^
| January 30, 2015
| Sadie Whitelocks
Posted on 01/30/2015 12:59:21 PM PST by Reverend Saltine
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To: Reverend Saltine
Snagged on rock and sprang a leak??
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posted on
01/30/2015 1:03:50 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
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To: Reverend Saltine
Allow me to summarize: We don’t know.
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posted on
01/30/2015 1:04:58 PM PST
by
Michael.SF.
(It takes a gun to feed a village (and an AK 47 to defend it).)
To: HiTech RedNeck
To: Reverend Saltine
I thought the only way it could sink a ship was to ram a lance into the side of it. Having done that, the vessel was unable to back up and remove the lance from the sinking ship and it went down with it, or am I thinking of another sub?
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posted on
01/30/2015 1:06:24 PM PST
by
rey
To: rey
I think that’s it... something like a cable from “lance” to sub, so that when it became taut at some distance away, kaboom.
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posted on
01/30/2015 1:08:30 PM PST
by
C210N
(When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
To: NorthMountain
This was in the ocean, in a location where other battles had been going on... there would likely be undersea junk in the locale. They had a lot of stuff but no sonar....
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posted on
01/30/2015 1:08:31 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
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To: Reverend Saltine
So they finally figured out how the cloaking device worked?
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posted on
01/30/2015 1:08:32 PM PST
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
To: rey
It was a mine, so there was no detachment problem
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posted on
01/30/2015 1:09:13 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
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To: rey
The spar was to sink a harpoon into the side of the
ship the Hunley was then to release a mine and back
away, the rope then pulling the mine against the
ship,
It will be interesting to see what they find.
Have they found the wreck of the Housitonic yet?
Could probably learn a lot from it.
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posted on
01/30/2015 1:10:31 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: rey
Your technology is almost correct, it rammed a spar into the target that had percussion cap fired explosive charge on it, then backed away and a lanyard fired the charge.
I have been a supporter of the project, but I’m not current. I’m eager to hear what they’ve got. I always figured that they popped a bunch of seams when the charge went off and made it partway home before the submarine flooded.
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posted on
01/30/2015 1:11:12 PM PST
by
Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: tet68
They spotted the submarine and attempted to attack it, but to no avail. At least we think to no avail. What if a cannonball had been shot at it?
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posted on
01/30/2015 1:11:51 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
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To: Reverend Saltine
What was the air source underwater for the men of the Hunley?
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posted on
01/30/2015 1:12:34 PM PST
by
ColdOne
(I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
To: Riley
True... the shockwave through the water could have been too much for the craft. Lousy testing.
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posted on
01/30/2015 1:13:19 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
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To: ColdOne
I’d suppose through the conning tower.
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posted on
01/30/2015 1:13:56 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
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To: ColdOne
What was the air source underwater for the men of the Hunley? Just the air that was in the sub when they shut the hatch, IIRC.
To: HiTech RedNeck
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posted on
01/30/2015 1:18:26 PM PST
by
ColdOne
(I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
To: DoodleDawg
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posted on
01/30/2015 1:19:49 PM PST
by
ColdOne
(I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
To: ColdOne
Makes sense they would need one, otherwise they would all suffocate. But the science of the day could be, well, odd.
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posted on
01/30/2015 1:22:48 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
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To: DoodleDawg
Well that was sure asking for trouble if so. But the science of the day wasn’t well developed either. Funny they could engineer the mechanics of the sub so well but flub on physiology.
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posted on
01/30/2015 1:24:43 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
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