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Photographer: Public Domain - Conrad Wise Chapman - American Civil War Museum
Taken: December 6, 1863
Caption: Submarine Torpedo Boat H.L. Hunley, Dec. 6, 1863
Additional Description: "The inventor of this boat, a man named Hunley, can be seen; also a sentinel. This boat, it was at first thought would be very effective; twice it went out on its mission of destruction, but on both occasions returned with all the crew dead. After this had happened the second time, someone painted on it the word 'coffin.' There was just room enough in it for eight men, one in front of the other, with no possibility of anyone sitting straight. The third time it started out, it never came back, nor was anything ever heard from it, but as one of the United States men-of-war in the harbor (USS Housatonic) was sunk at about the same time, the supposition was that they both went to the bottom together. Other objects to be seen in the picture are, Sullivan's Island, and a Dispatch boat." – Conrad Wise Chapman, 1898
Submitted: February 3, 2022, by James Hulse of Medina, Texas.
Database Locator Identification Number: p637632
File Size: 0.113 Megabytes

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