On Feb. 17, 1864, outside Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, a Confederate submarine known as the H.L. Hunley sank a 1,200-ton Union warship, the USS Housatonic. It was the first combat submarine to sink an enemy ship. Mysteriously, however, the sub itself then also proceeded to sink, for no obvious reason. Now, Duke University PhD grad Rachel Lance believes that she knows what happened.
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