Timeline

Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
1863/00/00 Horace Hunley designs a hand-powered "fish-boat" from a 25-foot-long, 48 inch diameter, boiler. Machinist extend the iron cylinder with tapered fore and aft section, install ballast tanks, a pump, a mercury gauge, a shaft and controls. Naval Architect H L HUNLEY (submarine)
1863/09/00 Horace Hunley arrives in Charleston and request the submarine torpedo boat be returned to him. Gen PGT Beauregard approves, and Hunley sends for a crew of men from the Park and Lyons Machine Shop (lost) in Mobile, Alabama. Naval Architect H L HUNLEY (submarine)
1863/10/15 Horace Hunley captains his submarine torpedo boat, test diving beneath the CSS INDIAN CHIEF anchored in Charleston Harbor. H L HUNLEY sinks to the bottom killing Horace Hunley and seven crew members. Died H L HUNLEY (submarine) Charleston Harbor
1863/11/08 Horace L Hunley is buried with full military honors at Hunley Circle in Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, South Carolina. In Memoriam Magnolia Cemetery Charleston, SC
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