USS Housatonic (1861)
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USS Housatonic was a screw sloop-of-war of the United States Navy, taking its name from the Housatonic River of New England.
USS Housatonic (1862–1864). Wash drawing by R.G. Skerrett, 1902
Destruction of Housatonic by a rebel torpedo; sketch by war artist William Waud (1864)
H. L. Hunley
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H. L. Hunley, also known as the Hunley, CSS H. L. Hunley, or CSS Hunley, was a submarine of the Confederate States of America that fought in the American Civil War. Hunley demonstrated the advantages
USS Housatonic (1861)
…Adirondack, USS Ossipee, and USS Juniata. Housatonic is recognized as being the first ship sunk in combat by a submarine when she was attacked and sunk by H.L. Hunley in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, though the Hunley was also sunk in the encounter. Housatonic departed Boston on 11 September and arrived at…
1864 painting by Conrad Wise Chapman
Inaccurate inboard profile and plan drawings, after rough sketches made by W.A. Alexander (1863)
Horace Lawson Hunley, the submarine's namesake and inventor
Plans of CSS David