COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The mystery of the CSS Hunley is one of those irresistible things, made all the more tempting to the scientific mind because the answers seem tantalizingly within reach. The old ...

Abandoned ships often look silent and forgotten, but their real stories can be darker than the wrecks themselves. MV Primrose stranded 31 men near North Sentinel Island, where the crew spent days ...

Modern nuclear submarines are some of the most advanced military machines ever created, representing the latest in a long line of technological evolution going back centuries. Believe it or not, some ...

For more than a century, the CSS 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 ...

correctionA graphic with an April 17 Metro article about the CSS Hunley incorrectly said that the Confederate submarine was raised in the fall of 2000 and that it spent more than 140 years on the ...

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 ...

A replica of a historic weapon of war has been renewed by a Jacksonville group to honor those who died in battle 148 years ago. The half-scale model of the CSS Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ...

Calvin Hart just had to see the replica of the CSS Hunley once, and he was hooked. Since then, for years, the Jacksonville man has been trying to get the full-scale replica of one of the world's ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, South Carolina -- The first submarine in history to sink an enemy warship is upright for the first time in almost 150 years, revealing a side of its hull not seen since it sank off ...

For 131 years, the CSS H.L. Hunley and its crew went unrecovered. The Confederate submarine was one of the most important naval artifacts in U.S. history. But its location was somewhere in the murky, ...

(North Charleston-AP) June 25, 2004 - Scientists still don't know why the Confederate submarine Hunley sank 140 years ago, a short time after becoming the first sub to sink an enemy warship. The ...

NORTH CHARLESTON — Capt. George E. Dixon was determined to sink the USS Housatonic, located at the entrance to Charleston Harbor, and help break the Union blockade. On the night of Feb 17, 1864, he ...