CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The first submarine to successfully sink an enemy ship in combat sank for the first of three times in Charleston Harbor in August 1863. The H.L. Hunley would ultimately sink ...
February 17, 1864, was a spot in naval warfare history when the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley struck and sank the USS Housatonic, the first successful attack by a military submarine against an ...
During the Civil War, the Confederacy fielded the first submarine used to successfully sink another vessel with an explosive 'torpedo.' It turns out that the same success that put the H.L. Hunley in ...
On August 8, 2000, the world watched as the H.L. Hunley—a Civil War-era submarine lost at sea for over a century—was raised from Charleston Harbor in an unprecedented recovery operation. Now, as the ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Twenty-five years have passed since the H.L. Hunley, a Civil War-era submarine once thought to be lost at sea forever, was raised from the ocean floor just off the Charleston ...