submarine

An account of the final hours and rescue after more than a century of the Confederacy submarine the H.L. Hunley which disappeared off the coast of South Carolina on February 17, 1864, after an encounter with an Union battleship.

"Get ready...as a young man in Civil War America, you are about to become involved in a highly dangerous underwater arms race. You could get into very deep water in the first submarine..."--Cover back.

A biography of the eighteenth-century Connecticut farmer who invented the submarine first used in naval warfare during the American Revolution.

Examines events surrounding the mysterious sinking of the Confederate submarine, the "H.L. Hunley," and discusses the vessel's 1995 recovery from the waters off the coast of South Carolina.

Describes the discovery of the Civil War submarine, "H. L. Hunley," explaining how scientists found it, raised it, and learned about what was inside.

An account of the final hours and rescue after more than a century of the Confederacy submarine the H.L. Hunley which disappeared off the coast of South Carolina on February 17, 1864, after an encounter with an Union battleship.

The story of the H.L. Hunley, the only submarine used during the American Civil War.

Tells the story of the "H. L. Hunley," the Confederate submarine that in 1864 became the first to ever sink an enemy ship but lay missing on the ocean floor for more than a century, describing its creation, its discovery, skeletons and objects found onboard, and facial reconstructions of several crew members by forensic anthropologists.