Research Catalog

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