Feb. 17 marks the 161st anniversary of when the H.L. Hunley made history by becoming the first submarine to successfully sink ...
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 ...
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 ...
A total of 22 Virginia-class submarines have been commissioned to ... USS Atlanta (1861), a Confederate ironclad converted from a blockade runner. It was named CSS Atlanta and captured by Union ...