Iron plate with attached view ports
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- Title:
- Iron plate with attached view ports
- Date:
- 1860
- Description:
- Exterior hull plate, hemispherical (semi-circular), made of wrought iron with glass view ports. View ports include hinged cast iron deadlight cover with wrought iron pin lock on the interior of the hull to prevent light from appearing outside the submarine during night drills. Images show plate and view ports following submarine excavation and hull plate removal, x-ray photograph of view ports prior to deconcretion, view ports following deconcretion (removal of sediment concretion), and full deconcretion of hull plate and view ports, including the removal of glass and hinged deadlight covers.
- Collection Title:
- Hunley Artifact Collection – Submarine Components and Tools
- Contributing Institution:
- Friends of the Hunley
- Media Type:
- Objects
- Personal or Corporate Subject:
- H.L. Hunley (Submarine)
- Topical Subject:
- Submarines (Ships)--Design and construction and Cast-iron--Conservation and restoration
- S.C. County:
- Charleston County (S.C.)
- Shelving Locator:
- HL-732
- Date Digital:
- 2005-09-28; 2005-10-06; 2005-11-02
- Digitization Specifications:
- 300 dpi, 24-bit depth, Nikon E4500
- Internet Media Type:
- image/jpeg
- Copyright Status Statement:
- Digital image copyright 2013, Friends of the Hunley. All rights reserved. For more information, contact Friends of the Hunley at 843.743.4865.
- Admin ID:
- 30497
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