CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA—The H.L. Hunley, a Civil War-era submarine,
will be immersed in a caustic bath that will remove the concretion of sand and
shell that accumulated on its 40-foot-long iron hull. The procedure will also
extract salt from the hull so that the Hunley can eventually be displayed
without immersing it in water. Once the sediment has loosened the scientists at
the Warren Lasch Conservation Center will begin to scrape it off. “Under that
concretion is the possibility of new information about the attack,”
archaeologist Michael Scafuri told The Post and Courier. The submarine sank and
disappeared in 1864 after it rammed a torpedo into the USS Housatonic.
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| Recent Photo of the Hunley |
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