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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.
1864, February 17 – Confederate human-powered submarine H. L. Hunley sinks the Union sloop USS Housatonic with spar torpedo, off Charleston.The H. L. Hunley thus became the first submarine to successfully sink an enemy vessel in combat, and was the direct progenitor of what would eventually become international submarine warfare.
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 ...
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 ...
Results of a French test of a spar torpedo in 1877. Perhaps the most famous use of spar torpedoes during the U.S. Civil War was by the Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley, which managed to sink the Union screw sloop USS Housatonic on February 17, 1864, although the Hunley was lost.
Other Union and Confederate ironclad wreck sites are known but remain untouched. The successful Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley, which sank the Union blockading sloop-of-war USS Housatonic, was recovered and is undergoing extensive restoration and long term conservation at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center in North Charleston, South Carolina.
This fire was responsible for much of the destruction visible in Charleston at the end of the war. Ruins seen from the Circular Church, Charleston, South Carolina, 1865. Charleston was the site of the first successful submarine attack on February 17, 1864 when the H.L. Hunley sank the USS Housatonic. [24]