Did you know the H L Hunley was a confederate submarine from the Civil War?
after the designer-builder died in the second sinking of this boat in Charleston Harbor. Here’s a brief background of the confederate submarine as seen in sonofthesouth.net: HUNLEY BACKGROUND From its earliest beginnings, the world’s militaries have sought ways to explore and exploit the oceans’ surface and depths to gain advantage over their adversaries. While other designers and builders, such as John Holland and Simon Lake would improve upon the designs and later builders would perfect them, Hunley, remarkably, was the first the have a design sufficient to sink a major man-of-war and insofar as it is possible to ascertain, escape enemy retaliation. The project to design and build a submersible boat capable of attacking a surface ship started in February 1862 when a group of New Orleans businessmen became inspired by the concept of a combat submarine presented to them by James McClintock and Horace L. Hunley. Using their own money
