.SHIP NOTES, SEAPORT & MUSEUM NEWS The conservation of the Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley reached a major milestone this past June when the sub was rotated to an upright position for the first time in 147 years. The Hunley has rested on her side at a 4 5° an gle since the she was lost in 1864; she was lifted from the ocean floor in that exact same pos ition in 2000 and has remained that way in a C harleston, SC , conservation lab, un til now. The Hunley is a fragile 19th-century artifact, and safely moving the approximately 7-ron, 40-foor submarine posed a ch allenging engineering feat. The ream spent two years planning th e ro tation an d res ted vario us sim ulatio ns in advance on a 3D model. The ro tation rook three days, with scientists turning the submarine m ere millimeters at a rime. O n the evening of 17 February 1864, the H. L. Hunley became the wo rld's firs t successful combat submarine by sinking the sloop-of-war USS Housaton ic. After signaling to sho re that the mission had been accomplish ed, th e submarine and her crew of eigh t mysteriously vanished . Lost at sea for more than a century, the Hunley
CSS H. L. Hunley was located in 1995 by Clive C ussler's National U nderwater and Marine Agency. The innovative hand-cranked vessel was raised in 2000 and delivered to the Warren Lasch Conservation Center. You can watch a time-lapse video of th e ro tatio n online on www.youru be.com by searching fo r "Hunley rotation." (Warren Lasch Conservation Center, 125 0 Supply Street, Building 255 , Former C harleston Navy Base, North C harleston, South Carolina 29405; www.hunley.org) ... Maritime Maryland: A History, by Dr. William S. Dudley, was twice honored this past spring with prestigious awards: the North American Society for Oceanic History (NASOH)'s John Lyman Award
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for the best book in US maritime history published in 2010, and the Maryland Historical Trust's Heritage Book Award for 2011. D r. D udley is a former directo r of Naval Histo ry fo r the Naval Historical Cenrer (now called the N aval History and Heri rage Command) and has served as president or director fo r many historical organizations and museums, including the Society fo r H is to ry in the Federal G overnment, NASOH, the Ann apolis Maritime Museum, among others. He is a current edi to rial advisor to Sea H istory m agazine, and he and his wife, D onna, are co-chairs of the 201 2 NMH S Annual W as hington D C Awards Dinner, h eld each spring. Congratulations Bill! (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010 , ISBN 978-0-801 89-475-6) ... This summer, the Save America's Treasures office closed after the federal government cut 100% of its funding for fiscal year 2011 and 2012. The National Park Service has announced that the Historic Preservation Grants division is not closing, however, and will continue to manage all previously awarded and currently active grants. Save America's Treasures was a grant program administered by the National Park Service through a partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation . The program was established in 1998 fo r "preservation and/o r conserva tion wo rk on nationally significant intellectual and cultural artifac ts and historic structures and sites." Since its inception, Save Am erica's Treasures was one of the largest and mos t effective grant programs for the protection of the nation's endangered and irreplaceable cultural heritage. (Yo u can view the complete datab ase of funded projects since
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