For the first time since the U.S. Civil War, the Confederate vessel H.L. Hunley—the world’s first submarine to sink an enemy ship—was revealed on January 12 after 11 years of conservation work.
Shown in a South Carolina conservation facility, the Hunley sank the U.S.S.Housatonic off Charleston in 1864. Within minutes the sub itself sank too-killing its eight-man crew and creating an enduring mystery.
Five years after the Hunley wreck’s discovery in 1995, conservators raised the sub using a sp...
Shown in a South Carolina conservation facility, the Hunley sank the U.S.S.Housatonic off Charleston in 1864. Within minutes the sub itself sank too-killing its eight-man crew and creating an enduring mystery.
Five years after the Hunley wreck’s discovery in 1995, conservators raised the sub using a sp...
Pictures: Civil War Sub Finally Revealed
For the first time since the U.S. Civil War, the Confederate vessel H.L. Hunley—the world’s first submarine to sink an enemy ship—was revealed on January 12 after 11 years of conservation work.
Shown in a South Carolina conservation facility, the Hunley sank the U.S.S.Housatonic off Charleston in 1864. Within minutes the sub itself sank too-killing its eight-man crew and creating an enduring mystery.
Five years after the Hunley wreck’s discovery in 1995, conservators raised the sub using a special steel truss that was removed only weeks ago.
“No one alive has ever seen the Hunley complete,” said engineer John King on January 12 as a crane lifted the truss at Clemson University’s Warren Lasch Conservation Center in North Charleston, Reuters reported on January 13.
“We’re going to see it today.”
Suspended on slings beneath a steel truss, the Confederate submarine Hunley is raised from the Atlantic Ocean off Charleston, South Carolina, on August 8, 2000.
At only about 4 feet (122 centimeters) tall and 2 feet (61 centimeters) wide, the interior of the Hunley was so cramped that its eight crewmen couldn’t trade places after they’d taken their stations.
The Hunley’s propeller had been protected by a curved iron shroud, part of which has been torn away, probably sometime after the Hunley sank in 1864.
