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, 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 ...

The demise of the H.L. Hunley, the Confederate submarine and the first to sink an enemey warship, has been a mystery to researchers since it disappeared in 1864. Until now. Researchers believe they ...

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 ...

An unused pair of snorkel hoses might have doomed the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley, researchers said, after finding the vital equipment stowed in the ship. Without the connection, the crew couldn ...

It is no secret that the crew compartment of the H. L. Hunley, the world’s first successful combat submarine, was small. But conservators working to save the pioneering vessel have a new understanding ...

correctionA graphic with an April 17 Metro article about the CSS Hunley incorrectly said that the Confederate submarine was raised in the fall of 2000 and that it spent more than 140 years on the ...

One of the great military mysteries in American history might now be solved by a Duke University graduate student after three years of research. Rachel Lance and her colleagues dedicated their ...

(Charleston) April 13, 2004 - Experts are putting faces with the names of the HL Hunley crew as part of the week-long memorial for the sailors this week. Computer generated pictures of Joseph Ridgaway ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – According to the scientists studying the submarine, the crew did not operate the emergency keel release mechanisms the night they lost their lives in the experimental, ...

The crew of the Civil War submarine HL Hunley likely died from airblast injuries, according to a study published August 23, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Rachel Lance from Duke ...