Canandaigua go r as rern and was lyin g arhwa n , of rhe H ousatonic, abour fo ur ship lengrhs off, while I was in rhe fo re rigging, I saw a blue li ghr on rhe warer jusr ahead of the Canandaigua, and on rhe srarboard quarrer of rhe H ousatonic." From a documem filed jusr 48 hours afrer rhe arrack, ir appears rhar Flemming may have seen rhe fa im beam from Dixon's signal lighr; rhe commander of Barrery M arshall, Lr. Colonel D antzler, srared in his official repon of rhe incident rh ar rhe agreed signal from rhe H unley was "observed and answered." Wherher or nor Flemming acrually saw Dixon's signal lighr will perhaps never be known, for afrer successfully sinking rhe Housatonic, Lieurenam George Dixon, his submarine, and her emire crew disappeared wirhour a rrace, umil rhe spring of 1995 when members of Clive C ussler's N UM A dive ream uncovered rhe hull, some 300 yards beyond rhe wreck sire of rhe Housatonic. The intacr vessel wirh all aboard was raised in 2000 and is now being conserved and is on display ar rhe W arren Lasch Conservarion Cem er in N orrh C harlesron, Sourh Carolina. j:,
H . L. Hunley undergoing conservation at the Wt'zrren Lasch Conservation Lab in North Charleston, South Carolina. Mark K Ragan was the H unley Project his- the historical narrative for the TNT 1999 torian during the excavation and raising of movie ofthe same title. Mr. Ragan is also the the submarine, who also worked as a recovery owner ofChesapeake Submarine Service, Inc., diver on the night shift. The movie rights to the only company in North America to offer his first book, The Hunley, were purchased mini-sub piloting classes in a K-350, a twoby Turner Network Television and used as person dry submarine.
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