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 ...
correctionA graphic with an April 17 Metro article about the CSS Hunley incorrectly said that the Confederate submarine was raised in the fall of 2000 and that it spent more than 140 years on the ...
An unused pair of snorkel hoses might have doomed the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley, researchers said, after finding the vital equipment stowed in the ship. Without the connection, the crew couldn ...
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 ...
(Charleston) April 13, 2004 - Experts are putting faces with the names of the HL Hunley crew as part of the week-long memorial for the sailors this week. Computer generated pictures of Joseph Ridgaway ...
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-AP) March 15, 2004 - As many as 10,000 people are expected to participate in April's funeral in Charleston for the eight-man crew of the Confederate submarine Hunley. Organizers say that ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – According to the scientists studying the submarine, the crew did not operate the emergency keel release mechanisms the night they lost their lives in the experimental, ...
The H.S. Hunley crew corpses didn’t show any signs of a struggle or panic, which stumped scientists for 17 years. Researchers just figured out why.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Thousands of re-enactors — men in Confederate gray and Union blue and women in black hoop skirts and veils — listened to the mournful wail of Taps at Charleston Harbor on ...
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 ...