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 ...

The 40-foot submarine was brought up amid much fanfare off Charleston, South Carolina, in August 2000. Author Clive Cussler and a team discovered the Hunley five years earlier, buried in the sand ...

On February 17, 1864, Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley attacked and sank USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor, killing five Union sailors. Hunley became the first submarine to sink an enemy ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD)- The H.L. Hunley submarine made history as the first successful combat submarine after sinking the U.S.S. Housatonic in 1864. Shortly after, the Hunley and it’s 8-man … ...

Scientists provided a sneak peek of the interior of the Civil War-era vessel in North Charleston on Wednesday. It was the first look inside the Hunley submarine since it sank in 1864.

The Hunley was much like a modern submarine, with a sleek, cigar-shape hull, diving fins to help it submerge and surface, and two stubby conning towers. But underwater, the crew had only the air ...

The Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley was a 40-foot-long (12 meter) sausage of bulletproof iron built in Mobile, Alabama, and propelled through the water by seven daring men cranking a single ...

On the night of Feb. 17, 1864, the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley sailed away from Sullivan’s Island, S.C., successfully torpedoed the USS Housatonic, then disappeared. Civil War buffs and… ...

The background for the Hunley mission involved a mysterious 40-foot-long Confederate submarine with a cooper keg of 135 pounds of gunpowder attached to a 16-foot pole that successfully rammed the ...

Monday, February 17 will mark the 161 st anniversary of the Hunley sinking an enemy warship, the USS Housatonic, becoming the first successful combat submarine. The vessel and her crew of eight ...

Born and built amid gray-cloaked secrecy during the American Civil War, the H.L. Hunley – the first submarine to sink an enemy ship – has held tight to its murky mysteries. The 150th ...

The 40-foot submarine was brought up amid much fanfare off Charleston, South Carolina, in August 2000. Author Clive Cussler and a team discovered the Hunley five years earlier, buried in the sand ...