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 ...

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 ...

Originally built in 1863 for the Confederate Army, the H.L. Hunley became the world's first successful combat submarine. It was suddenly lost at sea in 1864 and remained so until 1995 when it was ...

CLEMSON, S.C. (WCIV) — Clemson researchers are continuing to look for reasons why theConfederate H.L. Hunley submarine sank back in 1864. In a release on Wednesday, researchers said the Hunley's air ...

More clues of the H.L. Hunley mystery are being revealed during conservation of the American Civil War submarine. On Wednesday, researchers in a North Charleston, South Carolina, laboratory unveiled ...

The demise of the H.L. Hunley, the Confederate submarine and the first to sink an enemey warship, has been a mystery to researchers since it disappeared in 1864. Until now. Researchers believe they ...

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 ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - It’s been a quarter-century since the H.L. Hunley, once buried beneath Charleston Harbor, was raised from the deep, revealing a silent time capsule of Civil War history ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The Hunley will reopen fully this Father's Day weekend after more than a year of being closed or only partially opened due to the pandemic. With its reopening, the attraction ...

One of the great military mysteries in American history might now be solved by a Duke University graduate student after three years of research. Rachel Lance and her colleagues dedicated their ...

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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 ...