5 entries match your criteria.
Related Historical Markers
To better understand the Hunley.
By Stanley and Terrie Howard, May 16, 2009
CS H.L. Hunley Marker - Side B
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| |
(Side A)
The CS H.L. HUNLEY, the first submarine to sink an enemy warship, left from a point near here on the evening of February 17, 1864, and proceeded out Breach Inlet toward the USS HOUSATONIC, anchored nearby. The . . . — — Map (db m19124) HM |
| | Here rests the crew of the
Confederate Submarine Hunley
Died on October 15, 1863 when
making a practice dive in the harbor
Horace L. Hunley
Robert Brockbank
Joseph Patterson
Thomas W. Park
Charles . . . — — Map (db m23302) HM |
| | On the night of February 17, 1864, the H.L. Hunley set out from Sullivan's Island, directly in front of you, with a torpedo attached to a seventeen-foot spar on her bow. Her target was the U.S.S. Housatonic, anchored four miles . . . — — Map (db m30699) HM |
| | (Side One):H.L. Hunley DisappearsTo break the blockade of Charleston Harbor, the Confederate submarine the H.L. Hunley set out to attack the Union warship Housatonic on the night of February 17, 1864. After ramming a . . . — — Map (db m32007) HM |
| | The first submarine successfully used in warfare was completed at this site in 1863. Designed by James McClintock and Baxter Watson, and financed by Horace L. Hunley, it was built by W. A. Alexander at the Mobile machine shop of Park and Lyons. . . . — — Map (db m86244) HM |
May. 2, 2024
