CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Today marks an important anniversary for the Hunley, a combat submarine that fought in the American Civil War. On Feb. 17, 1864, the Confederate vessel attacked and sank the ...
The H.S. Hunley crew corpses didn’t show any signs of a struggle or panic, which stumped scientists for 17 years. Researchers ...
All eight crew members of the CSS H.L. Hunley were lost when the vessel, the first submarine to sink an enemy warship, targeted the USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor, S.C., on Feb. 17, 1864. The ...
Marine archaeologists rescued the shipwrecked H.L. Hunley (above, a computer rendering) in August 2000 more than 135 years after it sank during the Civil War. Courtesy of Friends of the Hunley One was ...