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 ...

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 ...

For 131 years, the CSS H.L. Hunley and its crew went unrecovered. The Confederate submarine was one of the most important naval artifacts in U.S. history. But its location was somewhere in the murky, ...

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.

Calvin Hart just had to see the replica of the CSS Hunley once, and he was hooked. Since then, for years, the Jacksonville man has been trying to get the full-scale replica of one of the world's ...

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 ...

What: Underwater archaeologist Ralph Wilbanks and partners found and raised the Confederate submarine the CSS Hunley. He is a featured speaker at this year's show. When: 2, 4 and 6 p.m. Saturday; 1, 3 ...

Tom was there for the coverage of the H.L. Hunley, a Confederate submarine, being recovered and raised off the coast of Charleston. “I’ve always been a history buff and really got into the coverage of ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Scientists in South Carolina began the painstaking job Wednesday of righting the Confederate submarine the CSS H.L. Hunley, which sank on its side during the Civil War after ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. – It was just an X-ray on a computer screen, but it told a story. There was a small button, a pocket watch and chain, a folding rule, a pocket knife and a small pair of binoculars.

A blast-injury expert takes aim at the mystery of what sank the most famous—and lethal—submarine of the Civil War Rachel Lance - Author, Chamber Divers: The Untold Story of the D-Day Scientists Who ...