The mystery of why the Hunley sank off the coast of Charleston is far from solved

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 The mystery of why the Hunley sank off the coast of Charleston is far from solved

    By Brian Hicks bhicks@postandcourier.com Aug 31, 2017 Updated Aug 31, 2017 (1)

For more than 150 years, people have been trying to figure out why the H.L. Hunley sank.

When it torpedoed the Union ship Housatonic off the coast of Charleston in the cold winter of 1864, it became the first submarine to sink an enemy ship in battle — a feat that would not be repeated for another 50 years.

And then it vanished.

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