Monday, February 17 will mark the 161 st anniversary of the Hunley sinking an enemy warship, the USS Housatonic, becoming the first successful combat submarine. The vessel and her crew of eight ...

Originally built in 1863 for the Confederate Army, the H.L. Hunley became the world's first successful combat submarine. It was suddenly lost at sea in 1864 and remained so until 1995 when it was ...

The Peery collection was supposed to be the second anchor of a proposed maritime museum in the Charleston area for housing the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley, the first to sink an enemy warship ...