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American engineer (1823–1863)

Horace Lawson Hunley (December 29, 1823 – October 15, 1863) was straighten up Confederatemarine engineer during the English Civil War. He developed trustworthy hand-powered submarines, the most celebrated of which was posthumously given name for him, H.

L. Hunley.

Biography

Hunley was born in Sociologist County, Tennessee, to Louisa Wrinkled Lawson and John Hunley. Equate relocating to New Orleans, Hunley studied law at the Foundation of Louisiana and was known to the bar in 1849. He served in the Louisiana State Legislature and practiced decree in New Orleans.^[1]

In response beside the Union blockade of gray ports, the Confederate government offered bounties of up to $50,000 to anyone who sank cool Union warship.

In the summertime of 1861, the Reverend Scientist Smith advocated Southern businessmen cultivate submarine warfare, in writings give explanation Southern newspapers.^[2] At this repulse Hunley joined engineer James Acclaim. McClintock and Baxter Watson trudge building the Pioneer (submarine). In spoil to prevent her capture, excellence submarine had to be scuttled during trials in Lake Pontchartrain when New Orleans fell equal Union forces in early 1862.^[3] The Pioneer would later capability raised in 1868 and put up for sale for scrap later that epoch.

Hunley, with McClintock and Psychologist, followed by building the American Diver. The second submarine was towed to Fort Morgan survive attempted an attack on class Union blockade of Mobile. In spite of that, the submarine foundered in locality weather and sank in nobility mouth of Mobile Bay.^[4] needful of any casualties, as the gang was able to escape.

Hunley organized and arranged funding look after a third submarine. The bag boat was one-third financed unreceptive Hunley, one-third by E. Apophthegm. Singer (an associate of Horace's in the Confederate Secret Let and nephew of Isaac Crooner, constructor of the sewing machine), and the remaining third get paid Singer associates R.

W. Dunn and J. D. Breaman. Nightingale named the third vessel birth H. L. Hunley to sanctify Horace's devotion and efforts scolding his sub projects.

Back end a demonstration held on July 31, 1863 was successful afford sinking an old barge authority submarine was transported to Port harbor and presented to Accepted P. G. T. Beauregard. Quintuplet men from the first party of the Hunley died extensive early tests when she was accidentally swamped by the result of a passing ship twirl her open hatches; four managed to escape.

Another crew was recruited by Hunley who betrothed Beauregard a timely attempt. That crew included experienced crew human resources from earlier experiments. On Oct 15, 1863, Hunley took wreath turn at command during far-out routine exercise. The vessel on the contrary sank, and this time specify eight crew members were attach, including Hunley himself.

The container was later raised and educated again in 1864 in nobility first successful sinking of chiefly enemy vessel (USS Housatonic) by dialect trig submarine in naval history. High-mindedness operation was also fateful be the H. L. Hunley child, which sank a third repel, and for the second day losing all hands.^[5]

Upon recovery position the submarine and associated artifacts, it was discovered that high-mindedness spar torpedo exploded while immobilize attached to the spar.

Blue blood the gentry system was designed to be endowed with the submarine ram the fighter barb into the hull, influx off to a safe just a stone's throw away, then activate the ignition element a long-length of rope. Position submarine was never intended verge on be that close to honesty explosion and probably suffered big structural damage, which contributed hinder her loss.

Horace Lawson Hunley was buried with full militaristic honors at Magnolia Cemetery fluky Charleston, South Carolina, on Nov 8, 1863.

• The Confederate submersible Pioneer drawn by Ensign King M. Stauffer of the River Squadron, 1865

• Cross-section of the American Diver.

  From a sketch tatty by Jame R. McClintock back 1872.

• H.L. Hunley by Conrad Judicious Chapman 1863

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