The H.L. Hunley Recovery - August 8, 2000

The H.L. Hunley		Tuesday, August 8, 2000

Hi all. Today Laura and I took vacation days and had the best time we have had in a long time. We went out into the Charleston Harbor and watched The Hunley come home after 136 years. The Hunley was the very first submarine to sink an enemy ship. This happened in 1864 during the Civil War. In the act of sinking the enemy ship, The Hunley, itself was sunk … and hasn't been seen since … until today! We went out to see the crane bring up the sub, then went through the harbor and observed the 21 gun cannon salute, fired in honor as a tribute to the 9 men who are still in the sub. We were really moved by it all. Wish you could have seen it. They expect the contents of the sub to like a Civil War time capsule. It was really something. There must have 500 to 1,000 boats out there around the harbor, escorting the barge with the sub. Below are a few of the pictures I took. The photos were tough to get because of the rough seas when the hoard of boats were all together. It was neat being part of history … and I thought I saw our boat on CNN when we got home and watched the news. As Bart Simpson would say, "Way Coooooool, Man!" Be sure to bookmark this page and click on my or Laura's e-mail address below, and let us know what you think about the pictures. - Ron

OTHER LINKS on "The Story of the H.L. Hunley": The Hunley Website:http://hometown.aol.com/litespdcom/hunhist.html
News, History and Commentary on the Hunley Project: http://hometown.aol.com/litespdcom/index.html
The University of South Carolina's "Hunley Update": http://www.cla.sc.edu/sciaa/hunley1.htm
"Friends of the Hunley", a Flash site: http://www.hunley.org OR http://www.hunley.org/new/main_nav.htm
"The Story of the Hunley" at Junior University Press: http://members.xoom.com/Hunley

P.S. I apologize this page may have taken a while to load.My webmaster is also using this page as a demo for "how" graphics are displayed in Web pages. He's showing the effects the using copies of the same pictures (saved and inserted in multiple pixel dimensions { sizes }), …are displayed differently … Ron

`The Hunley on Barge`	`Ft Sumpter`	`The Hunley Crane`
`Click on above pictures to view and print them at 1024 x 768 pixels, the size when I sent them to my webmaster.`
`The above photos are each 320x200 pixel pictures and each have been inserted into a single cell, of a 3 x 1 cell table. Notice how you must use the horizontal scroll bar to view the Crane.`

A picture of the ocean going barge with "The Hunley Oaks" on board.
Photo is sized to 640 x 480 pixels and is not inserted in a table.
The picture and text is just inserted into the page and "centered".
Click on the picture to view the picture in your browser at 320x200 pixels.

Ft Sumpter with flags flying at half-mast, displayed at 320 x 200 pixels.
The picture -- and this text -- is inserted into a 1 cell table with the borders turned off.
Click on the picture to view the same picture in your browser at 640 x 480 pixels.

Ft Sumpter with flags flying at half-mast. 320 x 200 pixels.
This picture and this text is inserted into a 1 cell table with the borders turned on and background cell properties changed and colored in turquoise.
Click on the picture to view the same picture at 640 x 460 pixel size
but this time it's displayed in a Web page.

NOTE: There is NO LINK attached to this picture.
Ft Sumpter photo sized at 640 x 480 pixels

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