H.L. Hunley Model Ship

The H.L. Hunley was a Confederate Submarine.

About the H.L. Hunley Model Ship

This model ship of the H.L. Hunley was custom built from the following information:

• The original construction drawings.

About the construction of the H.L. Hunley Model Ship

• The model is painted with acrylic paint
• The ornaments are cold cast in bronze and painted

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History of the H.L. Hunley

The HL Hunley was a Confederate State submarine, built by B Park & Thomas W Lyons, Mobile, Alabama in 1863. The HL Hunley was named after her inventor Horace Lawson Hunley.

The HL Hunley was launched in July 1863 with a complement of 8 and an armament of a Spar Torpedo.

The HL Hunley sank on 29 August 1863, during a training exercise killing 5 members of her crew. She sank again on 15 October 1863, killing all 8 of her second crew, including Horace Hunley himself.

On 17 February 1864, the HL Hunley attacked and sank the 1240-short ton-screw sloop, USS Housatonic. Soon after that, the HL Hunley sank, killing all 8 of her third crew, going down in history as the first combat submarine to sink a warship.

In 1995 HL Hunley was located and recovered in 2000.

The HL Hunley is now on display in North Charleston, South Carolina at the Warren Lasch Conservation Centre on the Cooper River.

Member of The Nautical Research Guild

Learn more about the H.L Hunley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._L._Hunley_(submarine)