The Hunley

The fateful encounter of the Monitor and the Merrimack, history's first-ever battle of ironclad ships, was not the U.S. ... (more)

The fateful encounter of the Monitor and the Merrimack, history's first-ever battle of ironclad ships, was not the U.S. Civil War's lone naval milestone. Desperate to break the stranglehold of the North's coastal blockade, the South built and sent into war the hand-powered submarine CSS Hunley. The crew consists of nine volunteers, men destined to change the world forever in a submersible ship that was the first combat vessel of its kind. (less)