The H.S. Hunley crew corpses stumped scientists for 17 years. Researchers just cracked the case.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Conservator Virginie Ternisien works at removing the encrustration from the hull of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley at a ...

For more than a century, the H.L. Hunley rested at the bottom of the ocean just outside Charleston harbor, its crew entombed, its hull gradually encased in hardening encrustations. When it was raised ...

On February 17, 1864, Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley attacked and sank USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor, killing five Union sailors. Hunley became the first submarine to sink an enemy warship, ...

It has been almost 151 years to the day when the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley sank off the coast of South Carolina after attacking and sinking the warship USS Housatonic on Union blockade duty in ...

More clues of the H.L. Hunley mystery are being revealed during conservation of the American Civil War submarine. On Wednesday, researchers in a North Charleston, South Carolina, laboratory unveiled ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. – The hull of the first submarine in history to sink an enemy warship has been cleaned and revealed for the first time in 150 years. After a year of painstaking work, scientists ...

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 ...

The dead submarine crew hadn’t moved from their stations for nearly 150 years when the vessel was raised from the ocean in 2000. Whatever killed them happened so suddenly that they never made a run ...

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 ...

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 ...

It took more than 100 years to find the historic, sunken H.L. Hunley. The remains of those eight men, including Lieutenant George E. Dixon, would remain sealed in the wrought-iron casket that was the ...