CSS David
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CSS David was an American Civil War-era torpedo boat. On October 5, 1863, she undertook a partially successful attack on USS New Ironsides which was participating in the blockade of Charleston, South
Pen-and ink drawing of CSS David, showing external and internal plan
Torpedo Boat David at Charleston Dock, Oct. 25, 1863 by Conrad Wise Chapman
Photograph of a captured David-class torpedo boat (possibly CSS David herself), taken after the fall of Charleston in 1865
The wreck of CSS David
Spar torpedo
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A spar torpedo is a weapon consisting of a bomb placed at the end of a long pole, or spar, and attached to a boat. It was used by driving the spar directly into an enemy vessel. These torpedoes often
CSS David
…m) of the blockader. Hailed by the watch on board New Ironsides, Glassell replied with a blast from a shotgun and David plunged ahead to strike. Her spar torpedo detonated under the starboard quarter of the ironclad, throwing high a column of water which rained back upon the Confederate vessel and put out her…
A steamboat with a spar torpedo, in transport position
Explosive charge lashed to the boom of a spar torpedo
NMS Rândunica