For more than a century, the CSS 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 ...

(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 ...

In writing a column about the cause of death of the Confederate submarine crew members on the CSS Hunley in Charleston Harbor, S.C., it was pointed out to me that it is possible than crewman James A.

NORTH CHARLESTON — Capt. George E. Dixon was determined to sink the USS Housatonic, located at the entrance to Charleston Harbor, and help break the Union blockade. On the night of Feb 17, 1864, he ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - Crews working to conserve the world's first successful combat submarine say they have discovered human remains inside the crew compartment. The H. L. Hunley sank the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The mystery of the CSS Hunley is one of those irresistible things, made all the more tempting to the scientific mind because the answers seem tantalizingly within reach. The old ...

Cheers rose when the H.L. Hunley broke the ocean's surface for the first time in more than a century. Since it vanished during a 1864 naval battle, the Confederate submarine had sat on the seafloor ...

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 anniversary of ...

The dead submarine crew hadn’t moved from their stations for nearly 150 years when the vessel was raised from the ocean in 2000. Whatever killed them happened so suddenly that they never made a run ...