| American Diver – predecesor to CSS Hunley; lost in Mobile Bay, Alabama in February, 1863 |
| Artifact – something created by humans usually for a practical purpose; an object remaining from a particular period in time. |
| Blockade runner – a ship that runs through a blockade. |
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Charleston,
South Carolina – Coastal city where the first shots of the Civil War
were fired
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| Confederate – The South during the War Between the States |
| Crew – a group of people belonging to a ship. |
| CSS – Confederate State Ship |
| Dive planes – side panels that when depressed would allow submarine to dive to lower depths. |
| Excavation – to
expose to view by or as if by digging away a covering. |
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Harbor – a part
of a body of water protected and deep enough to furnish
anchorage
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| Hunley – Confederate submarine that was the first to ever sink an enemy warship. |
| Mission – a specific job to do. |
| Navigate – to travel by water |
| Pioneer – the first submarine built by McClintock, Watson and Hunley. |
| Sediment – the matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid or the material deposited by water, wind, or glaciers |
| Silt – loose sedimentary material with rock particles usually 1/20 millimeter or less in diameter |
| Spar – a stout rounded wood or metal piece (as a mast, boom, gaff, or yard) used to support rigging |
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Time capsule – a
container holding historical records or objects representative of
current culture that is deposited for
preservation until discovery by some future age; Sunken vessels are archaeological time
capsules.
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| Torpedo – a weapon for destroying ships by rupturing their hulls below the waterline. |
| Union – The north during the War Between the States |
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USS – United
States Ship
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| Vessel – a ship |
