CIVILWAR SUBMARINE H. L. HUNLEY (1863-1864) The Confederate States secret weapon, Submarine H.L. Hunley, recovered.
The Hunley was the secret weapon of the Confederacy and the world's first submarine to sink an enemy ship (1863-1864) . It attacked and sank the Union warship, the USS Housatonic, on the night of Feb. 17, 1864, and then disappeared. The submarine was later found several miles off Charleston, S.C., in the 1990s and recovered in 2000.
The submarine H.L. Hunley, a small, hand-powered submarine, was privately built in Mobile, Alabama, in 1863, based on plans furnished by Horace Lawson Hunley, James R. McClintock and Baxter Watson.
After the H.L. Hunley submarine received a series of failed tests and with a third crew, the submarine was ordered . . .
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