Published Resources Details Journal Article
- Title
- The submarine H. L. Hunley
- In
- Maritime Life and traditions
- Imprint
- no. 14, pp. 34-45
- Description
Accession No.1715
- Abstract
"While experiments had been made with underwater craft for at least 200 years it was not until the American Civil War that an enemy ship was successfully sunk by a submarine. The price was high, however, and whilst the target was destroyed so to was the submarine. In the summer of 1995, more than a century after the sinking, her remains were discovered off Charleston, intact and undisturbed. The author tells a very human story of eccentric science, extraordinary courage, and unresolved history."