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  • 10 years on, mystery of Confederate sub remains

    08/06/2010 12:57:20 PM PDT · by JoeProBono · 16 replies
    hosted. ^ | Aug 6 | BRUCE SMITH
    NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- A decade after the raising of the Confederate submarine Hunley off the South Carolina coast, the cause of the sinking of the first sub in history to sink an enemy warship remains a mystery. But scientists are edging closer. On Friday, scientists announced one of the final steps that should help explain what happened after the hand-cranked sub and its eight-man crew rammed a spar with a powder charge into the Union blockade ship Housatonic off Charleston in February, 1864.....