Charleston Maritime Museum
F2. Maritime Culture, Heritage, Archaeology, Art and MuseumsDefinition
South Carolina museum highlighting CSS Hunley.
A maritime heritage institution in Charleston, South Carolina, that interprets the Lowcountry’s seafaring and Civil War naval history. Its best-known story is the CSS Hunley, the Confederate submarine that sank the USS Housatonic off Charleston on 17 February 1864, the first submarine to destroy an enemy warship; the recovered Hunley itself is conserved and displayed nearby at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center on the former Charleston Navy Base.
Source: CSS Hunley: sank USS Housatonic off Charleston, 17 February 1864; raised 8 August 2000, Warren Lasch Conservation Center.