Once again, the good folks at HMDB, Historical Marker Database, were good enough to find another marker of particulat interest to us Navy buffs. From October 15, 2009
This one is in North Charleston, South Carolina.
"Here rests the crew of the Confederate Submarine Hunley who died October 15, 1863 when making a practice dive in the harbor."
And then a list of names:
Horace L. Hunley
Robert Brockbank
Joseph Patterson
Thomas W. Park
Charles McHugh
Henry Beard
John Marshall
Charles L. Sprague
Horace Hunley was, of course, the inventor of the Hunley. He was not supposed to be on the crew, but at the last minute decided to take command. He received a full military honors burial in Charleston's Magnolia Cemetery where Lt. Dixon is now buried. He was the commander of the Hunley when it sank the USS Housatonic and then itself disappeared for over a hundred years.
I also read that 32 had lost their lives on the Hunley.
Quite an Innovative Piece of Technology, But Probably More Deadly to Its Own Side. --B-R'er
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