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The Sinking of USS Housatonic on 17 February 1864 during the American Civil War was an important turning point in naval warfare.The Confederate States Navy submarine, H.L. Hunley made her first and only attack on a Union Navy warship when she staged a clandestine night attack on USS Housatonic in Charleston harbor.
USS Housatonic was a screw sloop-of-war of the United States Navy, taking its name from the Housatonic River of New England.. Housatonic was launched on 20 November 1861, by the Boston Navy Yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts, sponsored by Miss Jane Coffin Colby and Miss Susan Paters Hudson; and commissioned there on 29 August 1862, with Commander William Rogers Taylor in command.
USS Housatonic (1861), was a sloop-of-war launched 20 November 1861 and sunk in the first ever successful submarine attack on a warship by the Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley on 17 February 1864 USS Housatonic (SP-1697) , was built in 1899, commissioned by the US Navy on 25 January 1918 and served as a mine planter in the 3d Naval District ...
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Helmed by Lieutenant George E. Dixon with a crew of seven and desperate to break the naval blockade of the city, H. L. Hunley successfully attacked Housatonic, ramming Hunley's only spar torpedo against the enemy's hull. [14] The torpedo was detonated, sending Housatonic to the bottom in three minutes, [8] along with five of her crewmen. [15]
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.
Results of a French test of a spar torpedo in 1877. Perhaps the most famous use of spar torpedoes during the U.S. Civil War was by the Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley, which managed to sink the Union screw sloop USS Housatonic on February 17, 1864, although the Hunley was lost.
Becoming a lieutenant on December 8, 1838, [1] and a captain on July 16, 1862, [2] his commands included the USS Vanderbilt, Kearsarge and Housatonic. 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]