lol.
they should have called WWI submarines coffins.
i think there was a sub in the civil war, but not a very good one
Yes it sank in Charleston harbour but did sink a Federal ship first I think
Killed most aboard
The Chet Huntley......it sank every time it went out but showed macabre promise
(Hunley)
They did; "Iron Coffins".
i think there was a sub in the civil war, but not a very good one
There was a purpose built submarine The CSS Hunley, which was the first submarine to sink an enemy vessel in wartime. It had problems and sank, killing three different crews by the time it was lost.
Thanks for that great subthread discussion of the Hunley. It has been a frequent topic of topics around here. Keywords:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hunley/index?tab=articles
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/csshunley/index?tab=articles
For a few hundred years, subs had been used for surreptitious ingress and egress of ports, cities under siege, and stuff, but they were just barely submersible and man-powered. Diesel engines powered the subs of both world wars, and didn’t dive all that deep, mainly because of their need to breathe air. Building a sub to drop much below a half mile is non-trivial, especially when one is building them for military uses.