The Sub That Sunk Itself
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- This submarine created more damage to crew and itself than those that it was ever designed to face in combat!
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Fun fact: the CSS Hunley was rediscovered by the author Clive Cussler, who used proceeds from his book sales to fund the search
Fun facts are supposed to be fun. Otherwise It's just a fact
Beat me to it!! He deserves the recognition, in spite of the Navy, among others, trying to take it!
He also wrote the book Raise The Titanic on wich the movie of the same name is based. Never knowing the trie state of the wreckage.
It's the HL Hunley as it was privately owned. The Hunley was found by a diver trying to rescue his crab trap in the early seventies. Clive custler donated two million dollars to recover her.
The Hunley was called the HL Hunley as it was privately owned and never an official part of the Confederate Navy.
The H.L. Hunley first sank and killed five crew members in a test run on 29 August 1863. It killed eight crew members when it sank again in a later test run on 15 October 1863; among the casualties was it's inventor, Horace Lawson Hunley. It's third and final sinking was the one discussed in this video, happening on 17 February 1864 and killing the eight crew members aboard. In total, 21 people died.
Wow! That's some unfortunate luck 😢
I mean, they where confederates so, not much was lost, expect the steel.
The Fat Electrician has a good war stories with some good humor. One is about the German sub that sank because the toilet was flushed wrong since it was built without a septic tank like a diving bell
I've heard that story.
And boy is he fat
Among those Hunley killed was its own designer, Horace Hunley.
There was one time an experiment was conducted where the crew boarded, the hatches were closed, and the vessel submerged still sitting at dockside in an experiment to see just how long the available air volume could sustain the crew. They lasted cons8derably longer than expected since nobody wanted to be the weak link who tapped out first. The lookout on the pier had left to go tell the powers that be the Hunley had killed its entire crew again, only for everyone to arrive and find the Hunley quietly bobbing in place with the worse for wear crew standing on the pier.
Again?
It killed it's crew multiple times in testing. It sank 3 times, killing 21.
I believe that the men driving the screw were still at their stations when the sub was discovered.
Their bones were, mixed in with the silt in the hull. Even the $20 gold piece the Hunley's commander Lt. Dixon carried as a good-luck piece was found. And of course the remains of the crew were buried with full military honors.
Yes, that is the reason it is believed they died instantly from the shock wave. Some researchers also think that the crew decided to wait on the bottom out of fear of returning fire, but ran out of oxygen
@@admiral_alman8671 war certainly is a grim buisness.
yes they were and the original captain
It may be the first relatively successful war sub, but it wasn't the first war sub. That honor goes to the Turtle, which was used by the Americans during the American Revolution. It was little more than a barrel with propellers. The idea was to cut a hole in the ship and stuff it with explosives, but the propulsion was so weak that the operator couldn't hold it steady enough to drill the hole before being spotted.
I’ve seen the Hunley in person. It’s incredibly small by today’s standards to say the least. They had an enlarged replica section in the lobby that was bigger than the actual Hunley and I got claustrophobic in that. Idk how more than 2 people ever fit inside the Hunley. Great video
Saw the wreck not long after the museum was opened as a young lad. Looking forward to taking my own kids to see it next month.
Actually, what's more likely is they ran out of oxygen! It's believed that after placing the charge & it exploded, they were waiting to resurface, but they only had 2 hours of oxygen total for their mission & they ended up suffocating after waiting too long to resurface!
Thanks Mike
Thought it would be Tang;!, never heard of this one, another great job Guys!!!😊
I've seen the Hunley several times throughout its restoration. It's cool. I'd definitely recommend a visit to any history buffs like myself.
Technically, the Hunley was not the "CSS Hunley" because first, it was a private venture and second, because it was manned and controlled by the Confederate Army. It is properly just called the H.L. Hunley.
The Hunley sank three times, each time killing its crew. Its final voyage actually had its creator on board, determined to prove his creation was safe.
Sad, yet ironkc
Thumbs up, yea,the Hunley took a few lives,
Great story, thanks for sharing it so well.
Is it worth doing another video on the other times that the Hunley sank, killing some or all of its crews?
From the opening I figured this would be about the Kursk...
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The Union had the USS Alligator. It was lost during a storm while being towed.
It was lately found that the sub did not die due to the shockwaveof the explosion instead they died to a lack of oxygen hence they had been underwater for too long and suffocated. The sub was discovered with no sign of damage from the explosion. Nationan geogaphic made a episode where they told what happened
That was the third and final time the Hunley killed its crew.
As a native and current resident of Charleston, I will point out a small inaccuracy. The Hunley did not sink in the harbor on its final voyage (it did in testing in the harbor) but it sank in the open ocean off of Sullivan's Island. If you ever find yourself on Sullivan's Island, the Irish pub there only takes cash and most of the other places are significantly more expensive except for the Co-Op place but that is barely more than a coffee shop.
The Hunley, aka the Civil War K- Class
Note: the Hunley had one of it portholes was shattered during the the attack. Union sailors. and watch were shooting at it. And she was found over 200 yards from the Housatonic. It is probable she was sunk by foundering/flooding from the broken porthole, not by her own weapon/torpedo. She didn't sink herself
What was the sub used in the American Revolution? Something about chestnut? Or was that it's shape?
I've been to the CSS Hunley. It's quite small.
Hi I noticed in the titanic movie on the close up shot on the bow about 32 mins in there are numbers can you explain a bit on that
Its a great musuem by the way
It's worth to note it was a SPAR TORPEDO.
Never was a CSS.
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I believe they did an investigation that led them to believe the crew more likely passed out due to an opened gas valve (unsure of what gas) and subsequently suffocated
“The South will ris….” Y’all know the rest.
All because an officer was to proud to have someone flush for him.
"submarine" bro that was a contraption at best
That is an inaccurate description. The ship was firing into Charleston.
And the shell killed many people
Ask a Mortician has done a very good video about this subject.
There's a red october joke in there somewhere
If it was taking shots wout damage I wonder why they dove again .
Not so.
It was found it had indeed survived the attack, and was found a considerable distance away-- they had managed to cruise away intact.
It appears they all suffocated.
Can you imagine crawling in KNOWING THE LAST TWO CREWS SUNK AND DIED>>>>I BET THEY ALL HAD TO SIGN A WAYVER>>>
That is a horrible way to die.
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Meanwhile the uss tang
Towards the end of WW2 a German U-Boat was fitted with a toilet which could be flush while it was submerged, something they didn't have before. The drawback was that it needed a specially trained crewman to do the flushing. One day while on patrol the captain used the toilet but instead of calling for the crewman to flush it he decided to do it himself. He not only got it wrong but he ended up sinking his own submarine.
Sank, not sunk.
SANK itself FFS
JEEZ
SHIP, SHIP, HURRAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
K class? Just before you get going I’m guessing. Go on… aw man. I’m still sure it’s a k class
I loved learning the history of this vessel. The Hunley killed so many confederate soldiers in testing and it’s one mission it deserves the metal of honor o7
The "Hunley" was NOT a submarine.
It was , at best, a SUBMERSIBLE.
And it certainly did NOT "prove the concept of a submarine as viable"
In that case wouldn't all subs except nuclear powered ones also be submersibles?
@@mbryson2899 Correct, and even those HAVE to surface periodically.
Ah, yes it did prove the viability simply by the FACT that it SANK its target in ACTUAL combat, something that neither Bushnell's "Turtle" (1775) nor Fulton's "Nautilus" (1800) were able to do.
SUBmersiles
SUBmarine
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