After years of painstaking restoration, scientists say they are on the brink of solving what sank the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley - the first sub in history to wreck an enemy warship.
Considered the Confederacy's stealth weapon during the Civil War, the hand-cranked H.L. Hunley sank the Union warship Housatonic in winter 1864 and then disappeared with all eight Confederate sailors inside. Its remains were discovered in 1995 in waters off South Carolina. Now with about 70% of the hull cleaned of heavy rust, crucial clues have been unearthed.
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