Thursday, June 8, 2017

Cleaned of encrustations, the CSS Hunley becomes a real submarine

Via Robert

 

For more than a century, the CSS Hunley rested at the bottom of the ocean just outside Charleston harbor, its crew entombed, its hull gradually encased in hardening encrustations.

When it was raised 15 years ago off South Carolina, it looked more like a barnacled sea monster than the world's first operational submarine, sunk in battle during the winter of 1864.

The remains of its eight sailors were removed in 2001, but research has continued, and Thursday, a conservation team announced that experts have now removed more than half a ton of the encrustations.

4 comments:

  1. The liberals will try to remove this from the museum one day. They will call it a symbol of hate.

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  2. Confederate sub. I wonder how long it will be before the Black-Lives-Matter folks backed by the Liberal whites will demand it be melted down and turned into a statue of MLK?

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  3. Black-Lives-Matter folks backed by the Liberal whites will demand it be melted down and turned into a statue of MLK

    Don't give them any ideas. :

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