http://www.metafilter.com/tags/UScivilwar Posts tagged with 'UScivilwar' at MetaFilter. Wed, 18 Aug 2004 11:24:00 -0800 Wed, 18 Aug 2004 11:24:00 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/35046/Wheres%2Dthe%2DAlligator <a href="http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/alligator/hunt2004/">It's out there someplace.</a> The NOAA and the Office of Naval Research are about to start searching for the U.S. Navy's first submarine, which went to the bottom of the Atlantic off Cape Hatteras in 1863. Unlike the Confederacy's CSS <em><a href="http://www.thehunley.com/">Hunley</a></em>, the USS <em><a href="http://www.sanctuaries.noaa.gov/alligator/history.html">Alligator </a></em>never saw action, but it's historically significant nonetheless. Perhaps it can be recovered, as its <a href="http://www.hunley.org">Rebel cousin </a>was. tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.35046 Wed, 18 Aug 2004 11:24:00 -0800 submarine UScivilwar wreck wreckhunting Man-Thing