H. L. Hunley and Housatonic
The Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley was the first combat submarine to sink a warship: on 17 February 1864 she sank USS Housatonic off Charleston, and was lost with all eight of her crew. Located in 1995, a find claimed by two parties, she was raised in 2000.
Dated events and their evidence
- 1863 CE mainstream
the submarine sinks twice in trials at Charleston: on 29 August, killing five of her crew, and on 15 October, killing all eight, among them her inventor Horace Hunley; both times she is raised source - 1864 CE mainstream
17 February: Hunley sinks the Union sloop Housatonic on blockade duty off Charleston, the first warship sunk by a submarine, and is lost with all eight of her third crew source - 1970 CE disputed
the underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence says he found Hunley; who found her first is disputed, and the archaeologist Mark Newell, who organised the 1995 search, credits Spence source - 1995 CE mainstream
April: diver Ralph Wilbanks, leading a NUMA team funded by Clive Cussler, locates the wreck 100 yards seaward of Housatonic source - 2000 CE mainstream
8 August: Hunley is raised and taken to the Warren Lasch Conservation Center in North Charleston source
Where
32.7186° N, 79.8047° W
The point is the position of the wreck of USS Housatonic off Charleston; Hunley was found about 100 yards from it, on the seaward side. Wikipedia's coordinate for Hunley is her conservation centre in North Charleston, not the wreck.
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._L._Hunley
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Housatonic_(1861)
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182244
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