On February 17, 1864, the 12-foot-long Confederate submersible H. L. Hunley became the first combat sub in American history to sink a surface warship, torpedoing the U.S. Navy’s three-month-old ...
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — It could be one of the nation’s oldest cold case files: What happened to eight Confederate sailors aboard the H.L. Hunley after it became the first submarine in history to ...
Even as the public gets its first sneak peek at the interior of the Civil War-era Hunley, the world’s first successful combat submarine continues to hold onto its chief mysteries. Nearly 17 years ...
For nearly 150 years, the story of the Hunley’s attack on the USS Housatonic has been Civil War legend. And it has been wrong. Scientists have discovered a piece of the Confederate submarine’s torpedo ...
Almost two decades after it was salvaged from its watery grave not far from the mouth of Charleston Harbor, it remains unclear where the H.L. Hunley’s final resting place will be. Increasingly, it ...
NORTH CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Confederate Civil War vessel H.L. Hunley, the world's first successful combat submarine when it sank a Union ship in 1864, was unveiled in full and ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The crew of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley, the first combat submarine to sink an enemy ...
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