First Submarine to Sink a Warship

[JPope]

CSA Hunley



http://www.hunley.org/



" Va. , Md. Honor Confederate Sub Sailors



Associated Press/AP Online





RICHMOND, Va. - Two sailors who died aboard a Confederate submarine were honored during elaborate ceremonies in Virginia and Maryland as officials prepared to bury the crew of the H. L. Hunley.



Sediment collected from inside the submarine was carried by casket through Richmond and Libertytown, Md. , Friday to honor the crew of the Hunley, which sank off the coast of South Carolina in 1864.



The sailors' remains were recovered when the Hunley was brought up from the ocean floor in 2000. Confederate groups seeking to honor the men had sought their remains, but the South Carolina Hunley Commission, citing legal reasons, would send only the sediment. ... "

 

[jponder]

Thats cool. I need to get over and see that one day.



You know in New Orleans besides St Louis Cathedral in the French quarter is a museum and displayed outside with other stuff is a Old Submarine that was pulled out of Lake Ponchatrain. You can tell its 100s of years old. No one knows whos it was. Maybe a Top secret other confederate sub. Its small though like 3 or 4 guys could fit in it.