• Overall dimensions: 24" L x 3 " W x 2 " H Limited Edition
• Museum quality handcrafted wooden model ship with no plastic parts.
• Includes a numbered Certificate of Authenticity signed by HMS Founder and Master Builder Richard Norris, as only 100 will ever be made.
• Meticulously painted to the actual Hunley
• Requires over 100 hours to carve the wood from scratch (not from a model kit) by our master artisans.
• Built with rare, high quality rosewood.
• THE NAMEPLATE PICTURED IS INCORRECTLY SPELLED. WE WILL INCLUDE THE CORRETLY SPELLED NAMEPLATE WITH EACH MODEL.
• The model rests perfectly on a large, wood base between four arched metal dolphins
• To build this ship, extensive research was done using various sources such as museums, drawings, copies of original plans and photos of the actual ship.
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H. L. Hunley was a submarine of the Confederate States of America that demonstrated both the advantages and the dangers of undersea warfare. The Hunley was the first submarine to sink a warship, although the submarine was also lost during the process. The Confederates lost 32 men in Hunley's career. The submarine was renamed after the death of her inventor, Horace Lawson Hunley, and some time after she had been taken into the Confederate forces at Charleston, South Carolina.

H. L. Hunley, almost 40 feet (12 m) long, was built at Mobile, Alabama, launched in July 1863, and shipped by rail to Charleston, SC on August 12, 1863. On February 17, 1864, Hunley attacked and sank the 1800-ton steam sloop USS Housatonic in Charleston harbor, but soon after, Hunley also apparently sank, drowning all 8 crewmen. Over 136 years later, on August 8, 2000, the wreck was recovered, and on April 17, 2004, the DNA-identified remains of the eight Hunley crewmen were interred in Charleston's Magnolia Cemetery, with full military honors

History

Hunley and two earlier submarines were privately developed and paid for by Horace Lawson Hunley, James McClintock, and Baxter Watson.

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