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On the evening of 17 February 1864, H.L. Hunley made her first mission against an enemy vessel during the American Civil War.Armed with a spar torpedo, mounted to a rod extending out from her bow, H.L. Hunley ' s mission was to lift the blockade of Charleston, South Carolina by destroying the sloop-of-war USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor.
H. L. Hunley, suspended from a crane during her recovery from off of Charleston Harbor, August 8, 2000 Removing the first section of the crew's bench at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center, January 28, 2005 H.L. Hunley in sodium hydroxide bath, July 2017. The discovery of Hunley has been claimed by two different individuals.
On February 17, 1864, Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley made history, but neither the sub nor its crew make it back from their mission. On February 17, 1864, Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley made ...
Horace Lawson Hunley (December 29, 1823 – October 15, 1863) was a Confederate marine engineer during the American Civil War. He developed early hand-powered submarines , the most famous of which was posthumously named for him, H. L. Hunley .
The Hunley was a confederate submarine that, in 1864, became the first sub to sink an enemy battleship, but it also sank to the bottom of the ocean. The mystery of what killed the crew of the H.L ...
The Hunley was sent to Lasch Conservation Center at the old Charleston Navy Yard for conservation. The remains of the eight crewmen serving on the Hunley when it sank were found and buried on April 17, 2004, at the Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston. The recovery and conservation of the H.L. Hunley was championed by South Carolina Senator Glenn ...
During the American Civil War, the Confederate States of America, faced with a similar situation to that of the colonies during the War of Independence, developed an operational submarine CSS H.L. Hunley, whose destruction of the USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor in February 1864 was the first successful submarine attack in history. By the ...
Charleston was the site of the first successful submarine attack on February 17, 1864 when the H.L. Hunley sank the USS Housatonic. [24] In 1865, Union troops moved into the city, and took control of many sites, such as the United States Arsenal, which the Confederate army had seized at the outbreak of the war.