Comments on: Review: The H.L. Hunley, Charleston https://mechtraveller.com/2019/04/review-the-h-l-hunley-charleston/ Mechanically-minded travel Sun, 26 Oct 2025 17:04:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Alastair https://mechtraveller.com/2019/04/review-the-h-l-hunley-charleston/#comment-7586 Sat, 28 Nov 2020 08:59:15 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=4494#comment-7586 In reply to Sune villum-nielsen.

… and, re-reading your comment by chance just now, Sune, it occured to me that you wrote it thinking I was American? No. As it happens I call myself “European” and not “British” though sadly I won’t be able to in just 5 weeks time!

]]> By: Alastair https://mechtraveller.com/2019/04/review-the-h-l-hunley-charleston/#comment-7585 Sat, 28 Nov 2020 08:52:43 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=4494#comment-7585 In reply to Glen Washburn.

Interesting, thanks Glen. Yes, I certainly lean toward the concussion trauma theory. Do you have an ISBN number for the book? Neither Amazon nor Google are showing it.

]]> By: Glen Washburn https://mechtraveller.com/2019/04/review-the-h-l-hunley-charleston/#comment-7580 Sat, 28 Nov 2020 02:09:32 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=4494#comment-7580 “In the Waves” by Rachel Vance, gives full scientific proof that shock wave trauma was responsible for the death of the crew of the Hunley. Furthermore she did it without the support of the “Friends of the Hunley”, which is probably why her evidence is not mentioned at the museum. I highly recommend reading the book.

]]> By: Alastair https://mechtraveller.com/2019/04/review-the-h-l-hunley-charleston/#comment-3498 Thu, 18 Jul 2019 18:01:23 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=4494#comment-3498 In reply to Sune villum-nielsen.

Hi Sune, Sorry you were offended.
Good to know Johan Frederik Carlsen was Danish. I didn’t have that info.
No matter, I was referring to the the forensic analysis of their bones which established that some of the crew were of ‘European’ origin, because their diet was based on variants of corn found on the European side of the Atlantic, not the American. Unfortunately, having low levels of carbon-13 in his bones didn’t narrow him down to either Denmark or Rudkøbing. I’m glad to find his exact provenance has since been established.

]]> By: Sune villum-nielsen https://mechtraveller.com/2019/04/review-the-h-l-hunley-charleston/#comment-3494 Thu, 18 Jul 2019 15:49:23 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=4494#comment-3494 the nationality mentioned of the crew of the hunley is the typical stereotypic american vay of viewing the rest of the World. one exmple is Johan Frederik Carlsen from Rudkøbing town in Denmark. You call him European, he himself if asked would have called himself DANISH — NEVER EUROPEAN. esp during thuse unlucky times when Denmark was on the brink of war with Germany. Your sence of history is at its best — superficial.

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