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Re: First Successful Submarine- not

The kids did a great job, and kudos to them, but they bought into the blue lantern myth as badly as all of the modern authors and researchers. If they had limited their reproduction to the clear glass lens lantern as found on the Hunley, I'd have no quibble with the project. I contacted the PA museum curator who accepted their blue lantern, and I hope that he gave credence to my research findings on pyrotechnic blue light, and won't display the lantern as a replica of what was recovered from the Hunley. Unfortunately, the Warren Lasch Conservation Center here in SC displays a lantern with a blue lens in the reception area outside of the sub, perpetuating the romantic and unfounded image of Lt. Dixon waving one to his comrades on shore four miles away, and expecting it to be seen. The Friends of the Hunley are not particularly interested in new theories on the fate of the sub; their main interest is in raising money to fund its conservation, and I suspect that anything which "rocks their boat" will take considerable time to gain traction. If you're interested in passionate discussion of the Hunley, by folks who want nothing more than to answer the unsolved questions, go to the Yahoo discussion group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/csshlhunley/join?yguid=323767894&finish=sub

Regards,

Chris Rucker

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