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  • When the Navy Found This Sunken Submarine, the Crew Was Dead. Why Were They Just Sitting There?

    04/03/2026 12:17:01 PM PDT · by Twotone · 46 replies
    Popular Mechanics ^ | April 2, 2026 | Michael Natale
    The submarine, launched by the Confederate Army in the last full year of the Civil War, made history when it became the first combat submarine to ever sink a warship. But on the same night when the H.L. Hunley’s torpedo sent the USS Housatonic, along with two of its officers and three of its enlisted crew, to a watery grave in the depths of Charleston Harbor in South Carolina, the Hunley itself—along with its eight-man crew—was also claimed by the waves. snip In a study published in PLOS One in 2017, a team of researchers affiliated with Duke University announced...