![]() ![]() ![]() Even after the submarine was definitively located in 1995 and recovered five years later, those legendsthose barnacles of misinformationhave only multiplied. And as they hunted, the legends surrounding the boat and its demise continued to grow. For generations, searchers prowled Charlestons harbor, looking for the Hunley. ![]() But also perishing that moonlit night, vanishing beneath the cold Atlantic waters off Charleston, South Carolina, was the Hunley and her entire crew of eight. Not until World War Ihalf a century laterwould a submarine again accomplish such a feat. Hunley sank the USS Housatonic and became the first submarine in world history to sink an enemy ship. On the evening of February 17, 1864, the Confederacys H. ![]()
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