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areful examination verifies
that Conrad Chapman's starboard-side drawing, simulated here with a
line-drawing rendering of my reconstruction, is remarkably
consistent with his painting of the Hunley.
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Placement of the wood supports for the
submarine and other details of the pier match those in the
painting. As Mark Ragan has indicated, in the drawing the
hatch covers, snorkel-box and dive planes have been removed, all
consistent with the difficult process of removing the bodies of the
second crew. He also offers that the scribble above the aft
hatch is someone climbing out of the sub. I believe what
appears to be a board propped on the supports is one of the dive
planes, as I've rendered it here.
Compare my rendered artwork with the actual
drawing, linked from my Hunley page. One detail that
doesn't match is the location of the propeller shroud brace
attachment. Although this suggests the brace angles out to the shroud
rather than stretching straight back as I've reconstructed it,
further analysis of the painting supports the reconstruction.
Similar analysis of the drawing indicates the perception results
from a distorted perspective since the strut attachment point
matches the painting. |
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