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USS Housatonic was commissioned on 25 January 1918 with Captain John Greenslade, USN, in command . While operating as part of Mine Squadron 1 out of Inverness, Scotland, from 7 June until the close of the war on 11 November 1918, Housatonic laid a total of 9,339 mines: [5] planted 769 mines during the 1st minelaying excursion on 7 June,
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.
Three ships of the United States Navy have been named Housatonic after the Housatonic River. 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
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.
The target was United States Navy ship, USS Housatonic, a 1,240-long-ton (1,260 t) [2] wooden-hulled steam-powered screw sloop-of-war with 12 large cannons, which was stationed at the entrance to Charleston, about 5 miles (8.0 kilometres) offshore. Hunley happened to be on patrol around that area at the time. [8]
A number of ships were named Housatonic, including: SS Housatonic (1890), an American cargo ship torpedoed and sunk in 1917; SS Housatonic (1893), a British tanker wrecked in 1908; SS Housatonic (1919), a British tanker sunk by aircraft bombing in 1941
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 October 15, 1863, Hunley took his turn at command during a routine exercise. The vessel again sank, and this time all eight crew members were killed, including Hunley himself. The vessel was later raised and used again in 1864 in the first successful sinking of an enemy vessel (USS Housatonic) by a submarine in