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 ...

NORTH CHARLESTON — Capt. George E. Dixon was determined to sink the USS Housatonic, located at the entrance to Charleston Harbor, and help break the Union blockade. On the night of Feb 17, 1864, he ...

In writing a column about the cause of death of the Confederate submarine crew members on the CSS Hunley in Charleston Harbor, S.C., it was pointed out to me that it is possible than crewman James A.

NORTH CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - Crews working to conserve the world's first successful combat submarine say they have discovered human remains inside the crew compartment. The H. L. Hunley sank the ...

Tom was there for the coverage of the H.L. Hunley, a Confederate submarine, being recovered and raised off the coast of Charleston. “I’ve always been a history buff and really got into the coverage of ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The mystery of the CSS Hunley is one of those irresistible things, made all the more tempting to the scientific mind because the answers seem tantalizingly within reach. The old ...

More clues of the H.L. Hunley mystery are being revealed during conservation of the American Civil War submarine. On Wednesday, researchers in a North Charleston, South Carolina, laboratory unveiled ...

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 ...

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 ...

The dead submarine crew hadn’t moved from their stations for nearly 150 years when the vessel was raised from the ocean in 2000. Whatever killed them happened so suddenly that they never made a run ...