The H.L. Hunley became the first submarine to successfully attack an enemy ship in combat when it sank the wooden ship USS Housatonic on February 17, 1864. The Confederate vessel disappeared with ...

To complete its mission the Hunley would need to approach its target closely, then use this spar to press the charge directly against the side of the enemy’s hull. On the deck of the USS ...

On Feb. 17, 1864, outside Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, a Confederate submarine known as the H.L. Hunley sank a 1,200-ton Union warship, the USS Housatonic. It was the first combat submarine ...

It was a cold, dark, moonlit February night during the Civil War in 1864 when The Hunley, a submarine of The Confederate States of America, attacked and sank the 1240- short ton USS Housatanic ...

L. Hunley became the first combat sub in American history to sink a surface warship, torpedoing the U.S. Navy’s three-month-old sloop-of-war USS Housatonic as it participated in the Union ...

On this winter day it was windy ... On Feb. 17, 1864, the Hunley attacked the USS Housatonic, a sloop of war, with a torpedo. The Housatonic sank quickly. Then the Hunley disappeared, along ...

Until now. Researchers believe they have solved the mystery behind the Hunley's disappearance on Feb. 17, 1864, just after it destroyed the USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbour. It's likely the ...

The hull may provide the final clues as to why the Hunley sank off South Carolina in February 1864 after sending the Union blockade ship USS Housatonic ... for six hours a day, three days a ...