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 ...
(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 ...
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 ...
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) — New analysis shows the doomed crew of theConfederate H.L. Hunley submarine didn't use a potentially life-saving built-in feature the night the vessel sank in the Charleston ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Thursday marks 19 years since the Hunley submarine was raised from the waters off the Charleston coast. In this week’s Good Question, Bill asked: “Will we ever know for sure ...
On Friday, Aug. 8, the Hunley Project announced a plan to rotate the H.L. Hunley from its historic position, revealing a side of it that hasn't been seen since it first disappeared in 1864. "This will ...
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 crew ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - There is a new theory on what killed the crew of the confederate submarine H.L. Hunley in the Smithsonian Magazine. On February 17, 1864, the H.L. Hunley sank from an ...