CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – 157 years ago the USS Housatonic plummeted to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean after the HL Hunley submarine struck the Union naval ship with a torpedo in an attempt to break ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The Hunley will reopen fully this Father's Day weekend after more than a year of being closed or only partially opened due to the pandemic. With its reopening, the attraction ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – It has been 157 years since the H.L. Hunley submarine sank off the coast of Charleston. The nearly 40-foot Confederate submarine, named after inventor Horace Lawson ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Clemson University conservation scientists, archaeologists, conservators, and historic preservationists are utilizing access to cutting-edge technology to tell the ...

Ever since the Confederate submarine Hunley was discovered off the South Carolina coast, theorists have wondered what caused it to sink in 1864. Now Clemson University researchers might have found an ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - There is a new theory on what killed the crew of the confederate submarine H.L. Hunley in the Smithsonian Magazine. On February 17, 1864, the H.L. Hunley sank from an ...

On February 17, 1864, Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley attacked and sank USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor, killing five Union sailors. Hunley became the first submarine to sink an enemy warship, ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Crews raised a history-making Civil War submarine from the waters off the coast of Charleston in August of 2000. Confederates built the HL Hunley to help break the Union’s ...

On a summer day 25 years ago, the Lowcountry witnessed something that seemed straight out of a movie: the careful lifting of a 19th-century submarine from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. The ...

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 ...

(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 ...