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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 7808112, member: 101855&quot;]Going through my photos, I got some good shots of the stern, but nothing of the bow because you could see it from the observation platform above the restoration. </p><p><br /></p><p>That’s too bad because the people who designed this ship were very talented. The shape was very much like the modern submarine, and hull was smooth. The many troubles included the need to power it with human mussle and a tedious system of submersion and raising that had to be perfectly executed. One mistake with one of the valves, and everyone on board was dead. </p><p><br /></p><p>The designer realized that powering the sub was a problem from the beginning. They experimented with a primitive sort of electric motor, but could not get it to work. Today submarines are powered by electric motors using electricity generated by Diesel engines or steam produced by atomic energy. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Hunley was the first submarine to sink a ship in wartime. It would not be done again until 1914, during the First World War.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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