![]() ![]() Ura and his team for their efforts in locating the wreck of Albacore,” Samuel Cox, the director of the NHHC, said in a statement. “As the final resting place for sailors who gave their life in defense of our nation, we sincerely thank and congratulate Dr. The Albacore disappeared while patrolling in the Pacific Ocean and had at least 85 sailors aboard. The NHHC used information and imagery provided by Tamaki Ura, a University of Tokyo professor who has specialized in developing autonomous underwater vehicles to confirm the identity of the submarine. The USS Albacore’s wreckage was confirmed by the Naval History and Heritage Command’s Underwater Archaeology Branch after it was located recently off the coast of Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan’s main islands, the Navy said in a news release. ![]() Navy submarine credited with sinking nearly a dozen enemy ships during World War II before vanishing in late 1944 has been found off the coast of northern Japan, Navy officials announced Thursday. Hunley became the first submersible to sink an enemy warship, but then disappeared.The long-lost wreckage of a U.S. ![]() In 1864, the Confederate Civil War submarine H.L. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on BookTV on C-SPAN2. Working with the Comcast local cable affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. ![]() C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their “2011 LCV Cities Tour” in Charleston, South Carolina, on June 27-July 1 to feature the history and literary life of the community. Video from the Friends of the Hunley showed the vessel being rotated into an upright position for the first time the previous week. Still pictures were shown as archaeologist Michael Scufuri talked about the recovery and restoration. The remains of the Hunley were discovered in 1995 and removed from the water in 2000. Hunley became the first submersible to sink an enemy warship, but then disappeared. ![]()
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