South Carolina's coast is sinking, putting historical sites in Charleston and across the Palmetto State squarely in the cross ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Feb. 17 marks the 161st anniversary of when the H.L. Hunley made history by becoming the first submarine to successfully sink an enemy warship during battle. It was on ...

Although it was mechanically sound, the Turtle, the first military submarine, was employed as a clandestine weapon during the American Revolutionary War. The Hunley, built during the American Civil ...

Submarines have captivated imaginations and dominated nightmares for much of the 20th century, but undersea vessels have a much longer history than that.

Updated: Nov 23, 2021 / 10:53 AM EST CLEMSON, S.C. (WCBD)- A team from Clemson University has completed conservation of items belonging to Captain George Dixon, who captained the Hunley submarine.

On February 17, 1864, Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley made history, but neither the sub nor its crew make it back from their mission.

The H.L. Hunley submarine sat encrusted in mud, seawater and sand for nearly 140 years, and after decades of research, dives and study, it was finally raised out of the ...

The HL Hunley was lying in wait to the east of Charleston Harbor, off the coast of South Carolina. The submarine had been there for months, practicing for her crucial mission and waiting patiently ...

It is possible the Hunley was surrounded. This would have left the submarine with very few options to escape, unless they could remain unnoticed.

Clemson researchers might have discovered what sank the Hunley, the world’s first successful combat submarine, in 1864 during the Civil War and vanished for more than a century off the South ...