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Ported to OBJ from the wonderfully detailed STL model posted online in 2023 by James Cooper (aka Mud_Trooper1346), which appears to be a "repaired" version of the original SketchUp model by "Tom" posted at Google's 3D Warehouse back in 2014. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. I'm going to give you two model download links for this one and we'll hope that they stay active. First is to the Sketchup original by "Tom" at Google's 3D Warehouse ...

3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model…

... and next is the link to Mr. Cooper's STL model, which I found easier to port although I had to retexture it myself (STL models don't come with textures):

www.thingiverse.com/thing:6164…

CSS H. L. Hunley, buit for the Confederate States Navy (CSN) during the American Civil War (1862-65), earned its place in world naval history by being the first submarine to successfully attack and sink an enemy vessel. This had been tried before multiple times ever the submarine first became available as a naval weapons delivery system, going all the way back to the Revolutionary War's Turtle, but Hunley was the first to actually do it. It attacked and sank the Union warship USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, on 17 February 1864. Unfortunately the shock wave from the spar torpedo that it used to sink Housatonic weakened its own hull, and it flooded and sank almost immediately with all hands lost. Whether the crew died from the blast of the torpedo itself or from the resulting flooding of Hunley remains a matter of academic debate, but the end result was the same (everyone on board died). The wreck of the Hunley was eventually located a short distance from the wreck of the Housatonic in the 1970s (again, just who deserves credit remains in dispute) and was found to be in remarkably good shape, having sunk into and eventually buried in the silt of the harbor bottom all that time. She was successfully raised on 8 August 2000 and the remains of her crew given a proper burial with full military honors. Great care was given to preserving Hunley for future generations, and she can be seen today resting inside a special preservation tank at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center at Charleston, South Carolina, along with a full scale partially working replica that visitors can actually go inside and experience what it was like to be a member of a crew on a Civil War era submarine.

For non-profit, non-commercial use only. If you download and use either model for your own projects and efforts please credit the original model creators for their efforts. Thank you.

TRIVIA - Hunley is not the world's oldest surviving submarine. That honor goes to the German Brandtaucher ("fire diver"), but for the Reichsflotte (Germay's first navy) in 1850, fourteen years before Hunley was built. Hunley's distinction as the first successful combat submarine is also frequently called into question, because like Mallory at Everest Hunley was lost after achieving its goal.

Description

Ported to OBJ from the wonderfully detailed STL model posted online in 2023 by James Cooper (aka Mud_Trooper1346), which appears to be a "repaired" version of the original SketchUp model by "Tom" posted at Google's 3D Warehouse back in 2014. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. I'm going to give you two model download links for this one and we'll hope that they stay active. First is to the Sketchup original by "Tom" at Google's 3D Warehouse ...

3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model…

... and next is the link to Mr. Cooper's STL model, which I found easier to port although I had to retexture it myself (STL models don't come with textures):

www.thingiverse.com/thing:6164…

CSS H. L. Hunley, buit for the Confederate States Navy (CSN) during the American Civil War (1862-65), earned its place in world naval history by being the first submarine to successfully attack and sink an enemy vessel. This had been tried before multiple times ever the submarine first became available as a naval weapons delivery system, going all the way back to the Revolutionary War's Turtle, but Hunley was the first to actually do it. It attacked and sank the Union warship USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, on 17 February 1864. Unfortunately the shock wave from the spar torpedo that it used to sink Housatonic weakened its own hull, and it flooded and sank almost immediately with all hands lost. Whether the crew died from the blast of the torpedo itself or from the resulting flooding of Hunley remains a matter of academic debate, but the end result was the same (everyone on board died). The wreck of the Hunley was eventually located a short distance from the wreck of the Housatonic in the 1970s (again, just who deserves credit remains in dispute) and was found to be in remarkably good shape, having sunk into and eventually buried in the silt of the harbor bottom all that time. She was successfully raised on 8 August 2000 and the remains of her crew given a proper burial with full military honors. Great care was given to preserving Hunley for future generations, and she can be seen today resting inside a special preservation tank at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center at Charleston, South Carolina, along with a full scale partially working replica that visitors can actually go inside and experience what it was like to be a member of a crew on a Civil War era submarine.

For non-profit, non-commercial use only. If you download and use either model for your own projects and efforts please credit the original model creators for their efforts. Thank you.

TRIVIA - Hunley is not the world's oldest surviving submarine. That honor goes to the German Brandtaucher ("fire diver"), but for the Reichsflotte (Germay's first navy) in 1850, fourteen years before Hunley was built. Hunley's distinction as the first successful combat submarine is also frequently called into question, because like Mallory at Everest Hunley was lost after achieving its goal.