On Friday, Aug. 8, the Hunley Project announced a plan to rotate the H.L. Hunley from its historic position, revealing a side of it that hasn't been seen since it first disappeared in 1864. "This will ...

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

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 ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The first submarine to successfully sink an enemy ship in combat sank for the first of three times in Charleston Harbor in August 1863. The H.L. Hunley would ultimately sink ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Newly conserved artifacts from the H.L. Hunley will be on display in a new ‘Tools and Tides’ exhibit launching this weekend. The exhibit will feature never-before-seen ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X MORNING HEADLINES | Twenty-five years ago today, crews raised the history-making Civil War ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – On a clear, moonlight night 150 years ago, the hand-cranked Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley glided out over glassy seas off South Carolina, sailing into history as the first ...

Joseph A. Ridgaway grew up on Maryland's Eastern Shore and was an experienced seaman by the time he turned 16. He joined the Confederate Navy in 1863. When he died aboard the H.L. Hunley, near the end ...

The Civil War submarine H.L. Hunley was carefully lifted from the ocean floor two months ago. Civil war and nautical fans are thrilled the Hunley is now on display in Charleston. But the famed boat ...

World history was made on Feb. 17, 1864,150 years ago, during the American Civil War. For the first time in naval combat, a submarine sank a ship. A Rebel submarine was manufactured in Mobile, Ala., ...