For more than a century, the H.L. Hunley rested at the bottom of the ocean just outside Charleston harbor, its crew entombed, its hull gradually encased in hardening encrustations. When it was raised ...

A broken pipe may help explain why a famous Civil War submarine sank off of Charleston, South Carolina, more than 150 years ago. The H.L. Hunley became the first submarine to successfully attack an ...

It has been almost 151 years to the day when the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley sank off the coast of South Carolina after attacking and sinking the warship USS Housatonic on Union blockade duty in ...

In 2015, Digital Journal detailed the painstaking restoration work being done on the Confederate submarine after it was recovered in 2000 and taken to Clemson University’s Warren Lasch Conservation ...

Though the Hunley’s journey began over a century ago, her modern-day voyage of scientific discovery started 18 years ago today. On August 8th, 2000 she was gently lifted from her ocean grave and ...

The restoration of the Confederate submarine Hunley is nearly complete, but plans for a permanent site to display it have yet to be decided. Clearly, there is no better destination for the historic ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The H.L. Hunley, a Confederate submarine that sank a Union warship, was lost at sea for over 100 years. When the sunken vessel was discovered, the ...

(Charleston) Aug. 8, 2000 - The Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley was brought into the port of Charleston after being lifted from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean off Sullivans Island on Tuesday ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. – The hull of the first submarine in history to sink an enemy warship has been cleaned and revealed for the first time in 150 years. After a year of painstaking work, scientists ...

The Hunley tells the incredible true story of the crew of the manually propelled submarine HL Hunley, during the siege of Charleston of 1864. It is a story of heroism in the face of adversity, the ...