"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 ...

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.

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 ...

The torpedo would be suspended from a wooden pole — approximately ... Lambousy wrote a short paper on the submarine in 2005. But at the beginning of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln ...

More on the Civil War submarine Hunley, found intact in Charleston ... The spar torpedo embedded in the sloop's wooden side was detonated by a rope as Hunley backed away. The resulting explosion ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

had contracted with investors from Hartford to build the submarine which would be eventually sold to the Navy, but only after the Civil War ended. The vessel, which was nicknamed the ...

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 ...