Rebel sub's hull revealed

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Rebel sub's hull revealed

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from Yahoo News:

"A century and a half after it sank and a decade and a half after it was raised, scientists are finally getting a look at the hull of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley, the first sub in history to sink an enemy warship.

"What they find may finally solve the mystery of why the hand-cranked submarine sank during the Civil...."


http://news.yahoo.com/150-years-confede ... 51557.html
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Handcranked...in a hull that small [X(] How tall were these guys?

There's a long entry at Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._L._Hunley_(submarine)

So she sank *three* times?
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Handcranked...in a hull that small [X(] How tall were these guys? ...

Munchkin tall, or did they crouch down for the entire voyage?
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So there would be like a small bench on one side of the hull.

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