CSS HUNLEY
Constructed by the firm Park and Lyons in Mobile, Alabama, Hunley was the brainchild of Horace L Hunley, a lawyer, planter and innovator from New Orleans. Other experiments had been disappointing, but the Hunley design was believed workable, even after two trial deployments ended in tragedies that cost the lives 13 men, including Horace Hunley.
Under control of the Confederate Army, Hunley slipped beneath the harbour waters in Charleston, South Carolina, that fateful night on 17 February 1864 and proceeded towards a cluster of US Navy warships blockading the major
