H. L Hunley Biography
The History of the H.L Hunley
The H.L Hunley submarine was the first sub to sink the USS Housatonic, the first successful use of a submarine sinking an enemy vessel in battle. Horace Lawson Hunley became a famous engineer for building the submarine from being a lawyer.
Horace Lawson Hunley was born on December 29, 1823 in Sumner County in Tennessee. Hunley has one sibling, Volumnia Barrow. Hunley’s parents, Louisa Harden Lawson and John Hunley, decided to move to New Orleans. Hunley later went into law and became a lawyer in the Louisiana state legislature as Deputy Collector of Customs. Hunley had made a modest amount of money, enough that he owned a small plantation and a few slaves. In late 1861, he decided to expand his business portfolio. …show more content…
After an unsuccessful attempt at building another submarine with McClintock and Watson, which ended in the vessel's sinking in Mobile Bay, Alabama, Hunley funded by himself a third submarine. The first submarine could supposedly reach 4 knots.
In 1863, Horace Hunley financed and launched his own submarine at Charleston, which he vainly called the H. L. Hunley. Disaster hit during a night-time test run on August 29, 1863, when the H.L. Hunley suddenly sank even as she pushed off the Charleston wharf and before she could be sealed for dive. Not all crewmen could escape the vessel as it took on water and quickly disappeared under the water. The incident killed five of the eight submariners, but which did not include Hunley who observed from shore. The blockade was strangling the Confederates and the order was given to salvage the submarine and raise it from the harbour bottom. HL Hunley submarine Hunley did join his crew on-board when his vessel was relaunched on October 15, 1863. The submarine sank again, later found at the bottom of the harbour at a steep angle, nose buried into the bottom. All eight submariners died, from either cold or asphyxiation, including
The H.L Hunley submarine was the first sub to sink the USS Housatonic, the first successful use of a submarine sinking an enemy vessel in battle. Horace Lawson Hunley became a famous engineer for building the submarine from being a lawyer.
Horace Lawson Hunley was born on December 29, 1823 in Sumner County in Tennessee. Hunley has one sibling, Volumnia Barrow. Hunley’s parents, Louisa Harden Lawson and John Hunley, decided to move to New Orleans. Hunley later went into law and became a lawyer in the Louisiana state legislature as Deputy Collector of Customs. Hunley had made a modest amount of money, enough that he owned a small plantation and a few slaves. In late 1861, he decided to expand his business portfolio. …show more content…
After an unsuccessful attempt at building another submarine with McClintock and Watson, which ended in the vessel's sinking in Mobile Bay, Alabama, Hunley funded by himself a third submarine. The first submarine could supposedly reach 4 knots.
In 1863, Horace Hunley financed and launched his own submarine at Charleston, which he vainly called the H. L. Hunley. Disaster hit during a night-time test run on August 29, 1863, when the H.L. Hunley suddenly sank even as she pushed off the Charleston wharf and before she could be sealed for dive. Not all crewmen could escape the vessel as it took on water and quickly disappeared under the water. The incident killed five of the eight submariners, but which did not include Hunley who observed from shore. The blockade was strangling the Confederates and the order was given to salvage the submarine and raise it from the harbour bottom. HL Hunley submarine Hunley did join his crew on-board when his vessel was relaunched on October 15, 1863. The submarine sank again, later found at the bottom of the harbour at a steep angle, nose buried into the bottom. All eight submariners died, from either cold or asphyxiation, including