How the First Combat Submarine Destroyed a Union Warship, Killed Its Own Crew

During the Civil War, the Confederacy fielded the first submarine used to successfully sink another vessel with an explosive 'torpedo.' It turns out that the same success that put the H.L. Hunley in history books may have killed its entire crew.

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