Artifacts retrieved from the wreckage of America's oldest combat submarine are being restored and placed on display in North Charleston to shed light on the crew of the H.L. Hunley. Melissa Allen, an ...

World history was made on Feb. 17, 1864,150 years ago, during the American Civil War. For the first time in naval combat, a submarine sank a ship. A Rebel submarine was manufactured in Mobile, Ala., ...

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 ...

South Carolina scientists plan to delicately rotate the 23-ton Civil War submarine that was the first in history to sink an enemy warship. The Confederate submarine has been resting on a 45-degree ...

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Although it was mechanically sound, the Turtle, the first military submarine, was employed as a clandestine weapon during the ...

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This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. Around 6:30 p.m. on February 17, 1864, ...

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 ...

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 ...