Hunley submarine civil war11/13/2023 ![]() Solving the mystery of what killed a Civil War submarine crew Courtesy Friends of the Hunley/Courtesy Friends of the Hunley/Courtesy Friends of the Hunley Researchers in a North Charleston, South Carolina, laboratory on Wednesday Junveiled the crew compartment - which had been sealed by more than 130 years of ocean exposure and encrusted sediment. Hunley mystery are being revealed during conservation of the American Civil War submarine. There was a 1-inch gap where the pipe was supposed to mount to the side wall. The pipe carried water to a ballast tank that helped the sub submerge and surface. They found the broken intake pipe at the front of the Hunley while cleaning away the thick, rock-hard coating of sand, shells, sea life and other materials – known as concretion – that built up on it over time. Since then, conservators and archaeologists have been working to preserve the vessel and study its contents in hopes of finally figuring out what happened. The sub was raised and taken to a laboratory in North Charleston in 2000. More than 130 years later the Hunley was discovered on the ocean floor. ![]() The Confederate vessel disappeared with all its eight crew members. Hunley became the first submarine to successfully attack an enemy ship in combat when it sank the wooden ship USS Housatonic on February 17, 1864. A broken pipe may help explain why a famous Civil War submarine sank off of Charleston, South Carolina, more than 150 years ago.
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