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On the evening of 17 February 1864, H.L. Hunley made her first mission against an enemy vessel during the American Civil War.Armed with a spar torpedo, mounted to a rod extending out from her bow, H.L. Hunley ' s mission was to lift the blockade of Charleston, South Carolina by destroying the sloop-of-war USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor.
H. L. Hunley, suspended from a crane during her recovery from off of Charleston Harbor, August 8, 2000 Removing the first section of the crew's bench at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center, January 28, 2005 H.L. Hunley in sodium hydroxide bath, July 2017. The discovery of Hunley has been claimed by two different individuals.
1864, February 17 – Confederate human-powered submarine H. L. Hunley sinks the Union sloop USS Housatonic with spar torpedo, off Charleston.The H. L. Hunley thus became the first submarine to successfully sink an enemy vessel in combat, and was the direct progenitor of what would eventually become international submarine warfare.
On February 17, 1864, Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley made history, but neither the sub nor its crew make it back from their mission. On February 17, 1864, Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley made ...
The Hunley was a confederate submarine that, in 1864, became the first sub to sink an enemy battleship, but it also sank to the bottom of the ocean.
He was captain of the Housatonic during its sinking on 17 February 1864 at the hands of Confederate States Navy submarine, H.L. Hunley. [2] [3] After the end of the Civil War he was assigned to the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine. He retired from the Navy as a captain in February 1867 and was promoted to commodore on the retired list in ...
Submarine watercraft were among the newly created vessels. The first sinking of an enemy ship by a submarine occurred on 17 February 1864, when the Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley, a privateer, sank the sloop USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Shortly afterward, however, H. L. Hunley sank, with the loss of her entire crew ...
Charleston was the site of the first successful submarine attack on February 17, 1864 when the H.L. Hunley sank the USS Housatonic. [24] In 1865, Union troops moved into the city, and took control of many sites, such as the United States Arsenal, which the Confederate army had seized at the outbreak of the war.