Raising the Hunley: The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine
- ISBN-10
- 0345447727
- ISBN-13
- 9780345447722
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 301
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Presidio Press
- Authors
- Brian Hicks, Schuyler Kropf
Description
Based on research by the scientists who unsealed the Hunley, an account of the Confederate submarine relates its disappearance on February 17, 1864, after a confrontation with a Union battleship, and its miraculous recovery from Charleston Harbor in 2000.
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