H.L. Hunley ( submarine ) - wikipedia H.L. Hunley ( submarine ) Jump to : navigation , search `` H.L. Hunley '' redirects here . For the Confederate marine engineer , see Horace Lawson Hunley . 1864 painting of H.L. Hunley by Conrad Wise Chapman History Confederate States Name : H.L. Hunley Namesake : Horace Lawson Hunley Builder : James McClintock Laid down : Early 1863 Launched : July 1863 Acquired : August 1863 In service : February 17 , 1864 Out of service : February 17 , 1864 Status : Awaiting conservation General characteristics Displacement : 7.5 short tons ( 6.8 metric tons ) Length : 39.5 ft ( 12.0 m ) Unconfirmed . Beam : 3.83 ft ( 1.17 m ) Propulsion : Hand - cranked propeller Speed : 4 knots ( 7.4 km / h ; 4.6 mph ) ( surface ) Complement : 1 officer , 7 enlisted Armament : 1 spar torpedo H.L. HUNLEY ( submarine ) U.S. National Register of Historic Places Show map of South Carolina Show map of the US Show all Nearest city North Charleston , South Carolina Coordinates 32 ° 44 ′ 0 '' N 79 ° 46 ′ 0 '' W  /  32.73333 ° N 79.76667 ° W  / 32.73333 ; - 79.76667 Built 1864 Architect Park & Lyons ; Hunley , McClintock & Watson NRHP reference # 78003412 Added to NRHP December 29 , 1978 H.L. Hunley , often referred to as Hunley , was a submarine of the Confederate States of America that played a small part in the American Civil War . Hunley demonstrated the advantages and the dangers of undersea warfare . She was the first combat submarine to sink a warship ( USS Housatonic ) , although Hunley was not completely submerged and , following her successful attack , was lost along with her crew before she could return to base . The Confederacy lost 21 crewmen in three sinkings of Hunley during her short career . She was named for her inventor , Horace Lawson Hunley , shortly after she was taken into government service under the control of the Confederate States Army at Charleston , South Carolina . Hunley , nearly 40 feet ( 12 m ) long , was built at Mobile , Alabama , and launched in July 1863 . She was then shipped by rail on August 12 , 1863 , to Charleston . Hunley ( then referred to as the `` fish boat '' , the `` fish torpedo boat '' , or the `` porpoise '' ) sank on August 29 , 1863 , during a test run , killing five members of her crew . She sank again on October 15 , 1863 , killing all eight of her second crew , including Horace Hunley himself , who was aboard at the time , even though he was not a member of the Confederate military . Both times Hunley was raised and returned to service . On February 17 , 1864 , Hunley attacked and sank the 1,240 - displacement ton United States Navy screw sloop - of - war USS Housatonic , which had been on Union blockade - duty in Charleston 's outer harbor . The Hunley did not survive the attack and also sank , taking with her all eight members of her third crew , and was lost . Finally located in 1995 , Hunley was raised in 2000 and is on display in North Charleston , South Carolina , at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center on the Cooper River . Examination , in 2012 , of recovered Hunley artifacts suggests that the submarine was as close as 20 feet ( 6 meters ) to her target , Housatonic , when her deployed torpedo exploded , which caused the submarine 's own loss . Contents ( hide ) 1 Predecessors 2 Construction and testing 3 Armament 4 Attack on Housatonic 5 Disappearance 6 Recovery of wreckage 7 Crew 8 Tours 9 In popular culture 10 See also 11 References 11.1 Citations 11.2 Bibliography 12 External links Predecessors ( edit ) Horace Lawson Hunley provided financing for James McClintock to design three submarines : Pioneer in New Orleans , Louisiana , American Diver built in Mobile , Alabama and Hunley . While the United States Navy was constructing its first submarine , USS Alligator , in late 1861 , the Confederacy were doing so as well . Hunley , McClintock , and Baxter Watson first built Pioneer , which was tested in February 1862 in the Mississippi River and was later towed to Lake Pontchartrain for additional trials . But the Union advance towards New Orleans caused the men to abandon development and scuttle the Pioneer the following month . The Bayou St. John Confederate submarine may have been constructed about this time . Hunley and McClintock moved to Mobile to begin development of a second submarine , the American Diver with the collaboration of two others . Their efforts were supported by the Confederate States Army . Lieutenant William Alexander of the 21st Alabama Infantry Regiment was assigned to oversee the project . The builders experimented with electric and steam propulsion for the new submarine , before falling back on a simple hand - cranked propulsion system . The American Diver was ready for harbor trials by January 1863 , but she proved too slow to be practical . One attempted attack on the Union blockade was made in February 1863 , but it was unsuccessful . The submarine sank in the mouth of Mobile Bay during a storm later that month and was not recovered . Construction and testing ( edit ) This section needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . ( October 2017 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) Inboard profile and plan drawings , after sketches by W.A. Alexander ( 1863 ) Drawings of the H.L. Hunley from 1900 . Construction of the Hunley began soon after the loss of the American Diver . At this stage , the Hunley was variously referred to as the `` fish boat '' , the `` fish torpedo boat '' , or the `` porpoise '' . Legend held that the Hunley was made from a cast - off steam boiler -- perhaps because a cutaway drawing by William Alexander , who had seen her , showed a short and stubby machine . In fact , the Hunley was designed and built for her role , and the sleek , modern - looking craft shown in R.G. Skerrett 's 1902 drawing is an accurate representation . The Hunley was designed for a crew of eight , seven to turn the hand - cranked propeller and one to steer and direct the boat . Each end was equipped with ballast tanks that could be flooded by valves or pumped dry by hand pumps . Extra ballast was added through the use of iron weights bolted to the underside of the hull . In the event the submarine needed additional buoyancy to rise in an emergency , the iron weight could be removed by unscrewing the heads of the bolts from inside the vessel . The Hunley was equipped with two watertight hatches , one forward and one aft , atop two short conning towers equipped with small portholes and slender , triangular cutwaters . The hatches , bigger than original estimates , measure about 16.5 inches wide and nearly 21 long ( 42 by 53 centimeters ) , making entrance to and egress from the hull difficult . The height of the ship 's hull was 4 feet 3 inches ( 1.30 m ) . By July 1863 , the Hunley was ready for a demonstration . Supervised by Confederate Admiral Franklin Buchanan , the Hunley successfully attacked a coal flatboat in Mobile Bay . Following this , the submarine was shipped by rail to Charleston , South Carolina , arriving on August 12 , 1863 . However , the Confederate military seized the submarine from her private builders and owners shortly after arriving , turning her over to the Confederate Army . The Hunley would operate as a Confederate Army vessel from then on , although Horace Hunley and his partners would remain involved in her further testing and operation . While sometimes referred to as the CSS Hunley , she was never officially commissioned into service . Confederate Navy Lieutenant John A. Payne of CSS Chicora volunteered to be Hunley 's captain , and seven men from Chicora and CSS Palmetto State volunteered to operate her . On August 29 , 1863 , The Hunley 's new crew was preparing to make a test dive , when Lieutenant Payne accidentally stepped on the lever controlling the sub 's diving planes as she was running on the surface . This caused the Hunley to dive with her hatches still open . Payne and two others escaped , but the other five crewmen drowned . On October 15 , 1863 , the Hunley failed to surface after a mock attack , killing Payne and seven other crewmen . Among these was Hunley himself , who had joined the crew for the exercise and possibly had taken over command from Payne for the attack maneuver . The Confederate Navy once more salvaged the submarine and returned her to service . Armament ( edit ) Plans of CSS David The Hunley was originally intended to attack by using a floating explosive charge with a contact fuse ( a torpedo in 19th century terminology ) which was towed at the end of a long rope . The Hunley was to approach an enemy ship on the surface , then dive under her , and surface again once beyond her . The torpedo would be drawn against the targeted ship and explode . This plan was discarded as dangerous because of the possibility of the tow line fouling the Hunley 's screw or drifting into the submarine herself . Instead , a spar torpedo -- a copper cylinder containing 135 pounds ( 61 kilograms ) of black powder -- was attached to a 22 - foot ( 6.7 m ) - long wooden spar , as seen in illustrations made at this time . Mounted on the Hunley 's bow , the spar was to be used when the submarine was 6 feet ( 1.8 m ) or more below the surface . Previous spar torpedoes had been designed with a barbed point : the spar torpedo would be jammed in the target 's side by ramming , and then detonated by a mechanical trigger attached to the submarine by a line , so that as she backed away from her target , the torpedo would set off . However , archaeologists working on Hunley discovered evidence , including a spool of copper wire and components of a battery , that it may actually have been electrically detonated . In the configuration used in the attack on the Housatonic , it appears the Hunley 's torpedo had no barbs , and was designed to explode on contact as it was pushed against an enemy vessel at close range . After Horace Hunley 's death , General Beauregard ordered that the submarine should no longer be used to attack underwater . An iron pipe was then attached to her bow , angled downwards so the explosive charge would be delivered sufficiently under water to make it effective . This was the same method developed for the earlier `` David '' surface attack craft used successfully against the USS New Ironsides . The Confederate Veteran of 1902 printed a reminiscence authored by an engineer stationed at Battery Marshall who , with another engineer , made adjustments to the iron pipe mechanism before the Hunley left on her last fatal mission on February 17 , 1864 . A drawing of the iron pipe spar , confirming her `` David '' type configuration , was published in early histories of submarine warfare . Attack on Housatonic ( edit ) USS Housatonic Main article : Sinking of USS Housatonic The Hunley made her only attack against an enemy target on the night of February 17 , 1864 . The target was the USS Housatonic , a 1,240 long tons ( 1,260 t ) wooden - hulled steam - powered sloop - of - war with 12 large cannons , which was stationed at the entrance to Charleston , about 5 miles ( 8.0 kilometres ) offshore . Desperate to break the naval blockade of the city , Lieutenant George E. Dixon and a crew of seven volunteers successfully attacked the Housatonic , ramming the Hunley 's only spar torpedo against the enemy 's hull . The torpedo was detonated , sending the Housatonic to the bottom in five minutes , along with five of her crewmen . Years later , when the area around the wreck of the Housatonic was surveyed , the sunken Hunley was found on the seaward side of the sloop , where no one had considered looking before . This later indicated that the ocean current was going out following the attack on the Housatonic , taking the Hunley with her to where she was eventually found and later recovered . Disappearance ( edit ) After the attack , the H.L. Hunley failed to return to her base . At one point there appeared to be evidence that Hunley survived as long as one hour following the attack at about 8 : 45 p.m. The day after the attack , the commander of `` Battery Marshall '' reported that he had received `` the signals '' from the submarine indicating she was returning to her base . The report did not say what the signals were . A postwar correspondent wrote that `` two blue lights '' were the prearranged signals , and a lookout on the Housatonic reported he saw a `` blue light '' on the water after his ship sank . `` Blue light '' in 1864 referred to a pyrotechnic signal in long use by the U.S. Navy . It has been falsely represented in published works as a blue lantern ; the lantern eventually found on the recovered H.L. Hunley had a clear , not a blue , lens . Pyrotechnic `` blue light '' could be seen easily over the four - mile distance between Battery Marshall and the site of the Hunley 's attack on the Housatonic . After signaling , Dixon 's plan would have been to take his submarine underwater to make a return to Sullivan 's Island . Although at one point the finders of the Hunley suggested she was unintentionally rammed by USS Canandaigua when that warship was going to rescue the crew of Housatonic , no such damage was found when she was raised from the bottom of the harbor . Instead , all evidence and analysis eventually pointed to the instantaneous death of the Hunley 's entire crew at the moment of the spar torpedo 's contact with the hull of the Housatonic from the explosion 's shock wave which destroyed their lungs and brain tissue in milliseconds . In October 2008 , scientists reported they had found that the crew of Hunley had not set her pump to remove water from the crew 's compartment , and this might indicate she was not being flooded . In January 2013 , it was announced that conservator Paul Mardikian had found evidence of a copper sleeve at the end of the Hunley 's spar . This indicated the torpedo had been attached directly to the spar , meaning the submarine may have been less than 20 feet from Housatonic when the torpedo exploded . As a consequence , the crew was apparently instantly killed through blast injury , according to a study published in August 2017 . Recovery of wreckage ( edit ) Main article : Conservation - restoration of the H.L. Hunley The Hunley 's discovery was described by Dr. William Dudley , Director of Naval History at the Naval Historical Center as `` probably the most important find of the century . '' The tiny sub and her contents have been valued at more than $40 million , making her discovery and subsequent donation one of the most important and valuable contributions made to South Carolina . The H.L. Hunley , suspended from a crane during her recovery from off of Charleston Harbor , August 8 , 2000 Removing the first section of the crew 's bench at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center , January 28 , 2005 H.L. Hunley in sodium hydroxide bath , July 2017 The Hunley discovery has been claimed by two different individuals . Underwater Archaeologist E. Lee Spence , president , Sea Research Society , reportedly discovered Hunley in 1970 and has a collection of evidence claiming to validate this , including a 1980 Civil Admiralty Case . The court took the position that the wreck was outside the jurisdiction of the U.S. Marshals Office , and no determination of ownership was made . On September 13 , 1976 , the National Park Service submitted Sea Research Society 's ( Spence 's ) location for H.L. Hunley for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places . Spence 's location for the Hunley became a matter of public record when the H.L. Hunley 's placement on that list was officially approved on December 29 , 1978 . Spence 's book Treasures of the Confederate Coast , which had a chapter on his discovery of the Hunley and included a map complete with an `` X '' showing the wreck 's location , was published in January 1995 . Diver Ralph Wilbanks located the wreck in April 1995 while leading a NUMA dive team led by novelist Clive Cussler , who announced the find as a new discovery and first claimed that the location was in about 18 feet ( 5.5 m ) of water over a mile inshore of Housatonic , but later admitted to a reporter that that was false . The wreck was actually 100 yards away from and on the seaward side of the Housatonic in 27 feet ( 8.2 m ) of water . The submarine was buried under several feet of silt , which had both concealed and protected the vessel for more than a hundred years . The divers exposed the forward hatch and the ventilator box ( the air box for the attachment of her twin snorkels ) in order to identify her . The submarine was resting on her starboard side , at about a 45 - degree angle , and was covered in a ⁄ to ⁄ inch ( 0.64 to 1.91 cm ) thick encrustation of rust bonded with sand and seashell particles . Archaeologists exposed part of the ship 's port side and uncovered the bow dive plane . More probing revealed an approximate length of 37 feet ( 11 m ) , with all of the vessel preserved under the sediment . On September 14 , 1995 , at the official request of Senator Glenn F. McConnell , Chairman , South Carolina Hunley Commission , E. Lee Spence , with South Carolina Attorney General Charles M. Condon signing , donated Hunley to the State of South Carolina . Shortly thereafter , NUMA disclosed to government officials Wilbank 's location for the wreck which , when finally made public in October 2000 , matched Spence 's 1970s plot of the wreck 's location well within standard mapping tolerances . Spence avows that he discovered Hunley in 1970 , revisiting and mapping the site in 1971 and again in 1979 , and that after he published the location in his 1995 book he expected NUMA to independently verify the wreck as the Hunley , not to claim that NUMA had discovered her . NUMA was actually part of a SCIAA expedition directed by Dr. Mark M. Newell and not Cussler ) Dr. Newell swore under oath that he used Spence 's maps to direct the joint SCIAA / NUMA expedition and credited Spence with the original discovery . Dr. Newell credits his expedition only with the official verification of the Hunley . The in situ underwater archaeological investigation and excavation culminated with the raising of the Hunley on August 8 , 2000 . A large team of professionals from the Naval Historical Center 's Underwater Archaeology Branch , National Park Service , the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology , and various other individuals investigated the vessel , measuring and documenting her prior to removal . Once the on - site investigation was complete , harnesses were slipped underneath the sub and attached to a truss designed by Oceaneering International . After the last harness had been secured , the crane from the recovery barge Karlissa B hoisted the submarine from the sea floor . She was raised from the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean , just over 3.5 nautical miles ( 6.5 km ) from Sullivan 's Island outside the entrance to Charleston Harbor . Despite having used a sextant and hand - held compass , thirty years earlier , to plot the wreck 's location , Dr. Spence 's 52 meters accuracy turned out to be well within the length of the recovery barge , which was 64 meters long . On August 8 , 2000 , at 8 : 37 a.m. , the sub broke the surface for the first time in more than 136 years , greeted by a cheering crowd on shore and in surrounding watercraft , including author Clive Cussler . Once safely on her transporting barge , the Hunley was shipped back to Charleston . The removal operation concluded when the submarine was secured inside the Warren Lasch Conservation Center , at the former Charleston Navy Yard in North Charleston , in a specially designed tank of fresh water to await conservation until she could eventually be exposed to air . The exploits of the Hunley and her final recovery were the subject of an episode of the television series The Sea Hunters , called Hunley : First Kill . This program was based on a section ( `` Part 6 '' ) in Clive Cussler 's 1996 non-fiction book of the same name ( which was accepted by the Board of Governors of the Maritime College of the State University of New York in lieu of his Ph. D. thesis ) . In 2001 , Clive Cussler filed a lawsuit against E. Lee Spence for unfair competition , injurious falsehood , civil conspiracy , and defamation . Spence filed a countersuit against Cussler in 2002 seeking damages , claiming that Cussler was engaging in unfair competition , tortious interference , and civil conspiracy by claiming Cussler had discovered the location of the wreck of the Hunley in 1995 , when she had already been discovered by Spence in 1970 and that such claims by Cussler were damaging to Spence 's career , and had caused him damages in excess of $100,000 . Spence 's lawsuit was dismissed through summary judgment in 2007 on the legal theory that , under the Lanham Act , regardless of whether Cussler 's claims were factual or not , Cussler had been making them for over three years before Spence brought his suit against Cussler and thus the suit was not filed within the statute of limitations . Cussler dropped his suit a year later , after the judge agreed that Spence could introduce evidence in support of his discovery claims as a truth defense against Cussler 's claims against him . The Hunley may be viewed during tours at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center in Charleston , South Carolina . A replica is on display at Battleship Memorial Park , Mobile , Alabama alongside the USS Alabama ( BB - 60 ) and the USS Drum ( SS - 228 ) . Crew ( edit ) H.L. Hunley Memorial Marker at Magnolia Cemetery The crew was composed of Lieutenant George E. Dixon ( Commander ) ( of Alabama or Ohio ) , Frank Collins ( of Virginia ) , Joseph F. Ridgaway ( of Maryland ) , James A. Wicks ( North Carolina native living in Florida ) , Arnold Becker ( of Germany ) , Corporal Johan Frederik Carlsen ( of Denmark ) , C. Lumpkin ( probably of the British Isles ) , and Augustus Miller ( probably a former member of the German Artillery ) . Apart from the commander of the submarine , Lieutenant George E. Dixon , the identities of the volunteer crewmen of the Hunley had long remained a mystery . Douglas Owsley , a physical anthropologist working for the Smithsonian Institution 's National Museum of Natural History , examined the remains and determined that four of the men were American born , while the four others were of European birth , based on the chemical signatures left on the men 's teeth and bones by the predominant components of their diet . Four of the men had eaten plenty of corn , an American diet , while the remainder ate mostly wheat and rye , a mainly European one . By examining Civil War records and conducting DNA testing with possible relatives , forensic genealogist Linda Abrams was able to identify the remains of Dixon and the three other Americans : Frank G. Collins of Fredericksburg , Va. , Joseph Ridgaway , and James A. Wicks . Identifying the European crewmen has been more problematic , but was apparently solved in late 2004 . The position of the remains indicated that the men died at their stations and were not trying to escape from the sinking submarine . On April 17 , 2004 the remains of the crew were laid to rest at Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston , South Carolina . Tens of thousands of people attended including some 6,000 reenactors and 4,000 civilians wearing period clothing . Color guards from all five branches of the U.S. armed forces -- wearing modern uniforms -- were also in the procession . Even though only two of the crew were from Confederate States all were buried with full Confederate honors , including being buried with the 2nd Confederate national flag , known as the Stainless Banner . Another surprise occurred in 2002 , when lead researcher Maria Jacobsen examining the area close to Lieutenant Dixon found a misshapen $20 gold piece , minted in 1860 , with the inscription `` Shiloh April 6 , 1862 My life Preserver G.E.D. '' on a sanded - smooth area of the coin 's reverse side , and a forensic anthropologist found a healed injury to Lt. Dixon 's hip bone . The findings matched a legend , passed down in the family , that Dixon 's sweetheart , Queenie Bennett , had given him the coin to protect him . However , the supposed relationship between Bennett and Dixon has not been supported by archaeological investigation of the legend . Dixon had the coin with him at the Battle of Shiloh , where he was wounded in the thigh on April 6 , 1862 . The bullet struck the coin in his pocket , saving his leg and possibly his life . He had the gold coin engraved and carried it as a lucky charm . A.J. Kronegh of the Danish National Archive has identified the J.F. Carlsen of the Hunley . Johan F. Carlsen was born in Ærøskøbing April 9 , 1841 . The last year he is registered in the census of Ærøskøbing is 1860 , where he is registered as `` sailor '' . The teeth of his remains in the Hunley still bear significant marks of a cobbler , which was the profession of his father . In 1861 J.F. Carlsen entered the freight ship Grethe of Dragør , which landed in Charleston in February 1861 , where J.F. Carlsen left the ship . In June 1861 he entered the Jefferson Davis ( the Confederate privateer brig originally named Putnam ) as mate . Tours ( edit ) Visitors can obtain tickets for guided tours of the conservation laboratory that houses the Hunley at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center on weekends . The actual Hunley is preserved and on display in a tank of water , while a replica can be entered by the public . The Center includes artifacts found inside Hunley , exhibits about the submarine and a video . In popular culture ( edit ) The story of the Hunley was told in the first episode , The Hunley , of the TV series The Great Adventure . It aired on September 27 , 1963 , on CBS . The role of Lt. Dixon ( misspelled in the credits as `` Lt. Dickson '' ) was played by Jackie Cooper . The original TNT Network made - for - cable movie The Hunley ( 1999 ) tells the story of H.L. Hunley 's final mission while on station in Charleston , SC . It stars Armand Assante as Lt. Dixon and Donald Sutherland as General Beauregard , Dixon 's direct superior on the Hunley project . The Hunley is the inspiration of the Sons of Confederate Veterans H.L. Hunley JROTC Award , presented to cadets on the basis of strong corps values , honor , courage , and commitment to their unit during the school year . See also ( edit ) Wikimedia Commons has media related to H.L. Hunley ( submarine ) . 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Archived from the original ( PDF ) on 2011 - 07 - 15 . Jump up ^ Teaster , Gerald . `` Karlissa B Crane '' . Jump up ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20120228203228/http://www.titansalvage.com/jackupbarges/jackupspecs.pdf Jump up ^ `` Annotated section of November 24 , 1979 , edition of NOAA chart 11523 with Spence 's 1980 claim area and showing sites marked `` it '' which is the wreck of the Civil War submarine H.L. Hunley and `` W.O , '' which is the old Housatonic wreck buoy `` . Archived from the original on July 4 , 2008 . CS1 maint : BOT : original - url status unknown ( link ) Jump up ^ The Arizona Republic , May 18 , 1997 ; page unknown , dated cut - out article Jump up ^ Bruce Smith ( October 11 , 2001 ) . `` H.L. Hunley Discovery Case Heads to Court '' . The Item . Associated Press . Jump up ^ Civil Action Number 2 : 01 - cv - 04006 - SB , Date Filed 05 / 31 / 2002 , entry number 35 , pages 32 -- 40 Jump up ^ `` Archived copy '' . Archived from the original on 2015 - 01 - 05 . Retrieved 2015 - 01 - 05 . Jump up ^ Kropf , Schuyler . `` Cussler ends lawsuit over finding Hunley '' . Jump up ^ Civil Action Number 2 : 01 - cv - 04006 - SB , Date Filed 06 / 06 / 08 , Entry Number 209 , Page 8 of 30 Jump up ^ Willie Drye ( April 12 , 2004 ) . `` Hunley Findings Put Faces on Civil War Submarine '' . National Geographic News . p. 2 . Retrieved 9 August 2017 . Jump up ^ Harry Pettit ( 8 June 2017 ) . `` American Civil War submarine -- that was the first in history to sink an enemy warship -- emerges from a 75,000 gallon tank of chemicals to reveal Human Remains '' . DailyMail.com . Retrieved 9 August 2017 . Jump up ^ Associated Press ( 24 August 2017 ) . `` Crew of Hunley studied '' . The Augusta Chronicle . Retrieved 24 August 2017 . Jump up ^ find a grave ( 24 August 2017 ) . `` Smn Augustus Miller '' . Retrieved 24 August 2017 . Jump up ^ `` Friends of the Hunley '' . hunley.org . Archived from the original on 27 July 2003 . Retrieved 26 September 2017 . 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Retrieved 26 September 2017 -- via www.imdb.com . Jump up ^ `` Archived copy '' ( PDF ) . Archived from the original ( PDF ) on 2011 - 07 - 16 . Retrieved 2010 - 05 - 11 . Bibliography ( edit ) The H.L. Hunley : The Secret Hope of the Confederacy by Tom Chaffin ( Farrar , Straus and Giroux , 2008 ) , ISBN 0 - 8090 - 9512 - 2 The Hunley : Submarines , Sacrifice & Success in the Civil War by Mark Ragan ( Narwhal Press , Charleston / Miami , 1995 ) , ISBN 1 - 886391 - 43 - 2 Ghosts from the Coast , `` The Man Who Found the Hunley '' by Nancy Roberts , UNC Press , 2001 , ISBN 978 - 0 - 8078 - 2665 - 2 Treasures of the Confederate Coast : the `` real Rhett Butler '' & Other Revelations by Dr. E. Lee Spence , ( Narwhal Press , Charleston / Miami , 1995 ) , ISBN 1 - 886391 - 00 - 9 Civil War Sub ISBN 0 - 448 - 42597 - 1 The Voyage of the Hunley , ISBN 1 - 58080 - 094 - 7 Raising the Hunley , ISBN 0 - 345 - 44772 - 7 The CSS H.L. Hunley , ISBN 1 - 57249 - 175 - 2 The CSS Hunley , ISBN 0 - 87833 - 219 - 7 Shipwreck Encyclopedia of the Civil War : South Carolina & Georgia , 1861 -- 1865 by Edward Lee Spence ( Sullivan 's Island , S.C. , Shipwreck Press , 1991 ) OCLC : 24420089 Shipwrecks of South Carolina and Georgia : ( includes Spence 's List , 1520 -- 1865 ) Sullivan 's Island , S.C. ( Sullivan 's Island 29482 , Sea Research Society , 1984 ) OCLC 10593079 Shipwrecks of the Civil War : Charleston , South Carolina , 1861 -- 1865 map by E. Lee Spence ( Sullivan 's Island , S.C. , 1984 ) OCLC 11214217 Robert F. Burgess ( 1975 ) . Ships Beneath the Sea : A History of Subs and Submersibles . United States of America : McGraw Hill . p. 238 . External links ( edit ) Wikimedia Commons has media related to H.L. Hunley . US Navy Friends of the Hunley -- includes visiting information Sea Research Society links to Hunley `` H.L. Hunley , Confederate Submarine '' at the U.S. Naval Historical Center Pre-Hunley -- Confederate Submarines The Hunley ( TV movie ) Rootsweb Hunley -- Archaeological Interpretation and 3D Reconstruction Hunley Related Items HNSA Web Page : H.L. Hunley H.L. Hunley article , Encyclopedia of Alabama An Interview with Dr. Lee Spence -- Discoverer of the Confederate Submarine HL Hunley Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1863 Shipwrecks 1 Jan : CS Neptune , USS Westfield 11 Jan : USS Hatteras 14 Jan : USS Columbia 17 Jan : USS Columbia 23 Jan : USS Morning Light 30 Jan : USS Isaac Smith 7 Feb : USS Glide , HMS Orpheus 23 Feb : USS Kinsman 24 Feb : USS Indianola 25 Feb : USS Indianola 28 Feb : Rattlesnake February ( unknown date ) : CSS American Diver 14 Mar : USS Mississippi 19 Mar : CSS Georgiana 25 Mar : USS Lancaster 29 Mar : Absalom March ( unknown date ) : Star of the West 2 Apr : USS Alligator 8 Apr : USS Keokuk 27 Apr : Ada Hancock , Anglo Saxon , USS Preble 18 May : USS Shepherd Knapp 27 May : USS G.L. Brockenborough 28 May : USS Lily May ( unknown date ) : CSS Ivy 5 Jun : CSS Stono 17 Jun : CSS Atlanta 24 Jun : USS Sumpter 13 Jul : USS Baron DeKalb 14 Jul : USS Sciota 6 Aug : USS Paw Paw 17 Aug : USS Crocus 18 Aug : CSS Oconee 21 Aug : USS Bainbridge 29 Aug : H.L. Hunley 11 Oct : USS Madgie 15 Oct : H.L. Hunley 6 Dec : USS Weehawken 10 Dec : Hooghly 30 Dec : Montana Unknown date : Beejapore , Carrier Dove Other incidents 1 Jan : USRC Harriet Lane 28 May : USS Choctaw 14 Jul : USS Antona 15 Nov : USS Camanche 7 Dec : Chesapeake Unknown date : J.M. Chapman 1862 1864 Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1864 Shipwrecks 3 Jan : Grafton 10 Jan : USS Iron Age 1 Feb : USS Smith - Briggs 2 Feb : USS Underwriter 17 Feb : USS Housatonic , H.L. Hunley 22 Feb : USS Linden 27 Feb : Westward Ho ! 1 Mar : Archimedes 6 Mar : USS Peterhoff 21 Mar : Clifton 28 Mar : USS Kingfisher 1 Apr : Maple Leaf 15 Apr : USS Eastport 19 Apr : USS Southfield 22 Apr : USS Petrel 26 Apr : Homer 30 Apr : Grecian 5 May : USS Covington , USS Signal 6 May : USS Commodore Jones 7 May : CSS Raleigh , USS Shawsheen 11 May : Invercauld 16 May : John Williams 22 May : USS Columbine 12 Jun : USS Lavender 14 Jun : USS Courier 19 Jun : CSS Alabama , Alvin Clark 24 Jun : USS Queen City 27 Jun : Mary Robinson 25 Jul : USS Undine 5 Aug : CSS Gaines , USS Philippi , USS Tecumseh 7 Aug : CSS Phoenix 8 Aug : USS Violet 31 Aug : Mary Bowers August ( unknown date ) : Houqua 3 Sep : USS Brandywine 23 Sep : USS Antelope 27 Sep : CSS North Carolina 7 Oct : USS Aster 27 Oct : CSS Albemarle 4 Nov : USS Elfin , USS Key West , USS Tawah , USS Undine 11 Nov : USS Tulip 28 Nov : CSS Florida 7 Dec : USS Narcissus 9 Dec : USS Bazely , USS Otsego 19 Dec : CSS Water Witch 21 Dec : CSS Georgia , CSS Isondiga , CSS Savannah 24 Dec : USS Louisiana 30 Dec : USS Annie , USS Rattler December ( unknown date ) : J.M. 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