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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 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 its recovery from Charleston Harbor, August 8, 2000. On February 17, 1864, the USS Housatonic was struck by a torpedo launched from the H. L. Hunley Confederate submarine in Charleston Harbor. While this was the first combat submarine to sink an enemy warship, the vessel failed to return to port ...
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 ...
Charleston Harbor was also the site of the first successful submarine attack in history on February 17, 1864, when the H.L. Hunley made a night attack on the USS Housatonic. [8] Although the Hunley survived the attack, she foundered and sank while returning, ending the threat to the U.S. blockade.
Police said an employee of a warehouse in a Columbus, Ohio, suburb shot one co-worker to death and wounded five others late Tuesday night. Suspect in custody after 1 killed, 5 wounded in Ohio ...
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.