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Raising the Hunley : the remarkable history and recovery of the lost Confederate submarine
- Title
- Raising the Hunley : the remarkable history and recovery of the lost Confederate submarine / Brian Hicks and Schuyler Kropf.
- Author
- Hicks, Brian, 1966-
- Publication
- New York : Ballantine Books, 2002.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Kropf, Schuyler.
- Description
- xvi, 301 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- H.L. Hunley (Submarine)
- 1800-1899
- Submarines (Ships) > United States > History > 19th century
- Excavations (Archaeology) > South Carolina > Charleston Harbor
- Underwater archaeology > South Carolina > Charleston Harbor
- Antiquities
- Excavations (Archaeology)
- Military operations, Naval > Submarine
- Submarines (Ships)
- Underwater archaeology
- Charleston (S.C.) > History > Naval operations > Submarine. > Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States > History > Naval operations > Submarine. > Civil War, 1861-1865
- Charleston Harbor (S.C.) > Antiquities
- South Carolina > Charleston
- South Carolina > Charleston Harbor
- United States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-287) and index.
- Contents
- Pioneers -- Melancholy occurrences -- Under a Carolina moon -- Eternal patrol -- Myths of Dixieland -- "This could be it" -- Veni, Vidi, Vici, Dude -- War between the states -- Boneyard -- Raise the Hunley! -- Goldfinger -- Want of air.
- ISBN
- 0345447719
- 9780345447715
- LCCN
- 2001043477
- OCLC
- ocm47849463
- 47849463
- SCSB-1248024
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library