A broken pipe may help explain why a famous Civil War submarine sank off of Charleston ... attack an enemy ship in combat when it sank the wooden ship USS Housatonic on February 17, 1864.

"There's your sub base," he said ... It turned out to be a wooden dugout canoe many centuries old, and one of the area's richest historical finds. Known wrecks of Civil War-era vessels include ...

The Hunley might have been the most famous Civil War submarine, but it was only one ... and the Alligator were constructed from iron and wood, and both were human powered. Of the Hunley's eight ...

A blast-injury expert takes aim at the mystery of what sank the most famous—and lethal—submarine of the Civil War Rachel Lance ... A spar made of wood and metal was bolted to a pivot on ...

She said there were significant advancements between the Hunley, the underwater battles in the World Wars and the submarines deployed today. "It's a big jump from the Civil War to World War II ...

A fabled Civil War era submarine that has been missing for over a century may have been located by a drone in New Jersey. Equipped with a magnetometer - essentially a massive metal detector - a ...

After being recovered in Aug. 2000, scientists found the groundbreaking sub was a perfect time capsule for a glimpse into what life was like during the American Civil War. Inside the Hunley ...

But not even a best-selling author or the re-enactment by highly acclaimed Hollywood actors had prepared Jon Sears for his dive back to Feb. 17, 1864 _ the day the Confederate submarine H.L ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — When the Confederate Civil War submarine the H.L. Hunley is lifted from its underwater grave today, the team of divers and archaeologists will not only be recovering a prime ...