Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
During the American Civil War, the Confederate States of America, faced with a similar situation to that of the colonies during the War of Independence, developed an operational submarine CSS H.L. Hunley, whose destruction of the USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor in February 1864 was the first successful submarine attack in history. By the ...
The R class was the first boat designed to attack other submarines. British submarines operated in the Baltic , North Sea and Atlantic , as well as in the Mediterranean and Black Sea. Over 50 were lost from various causes during the war.
1914, October 18 – German submarine U-27 sinks HMS E3 in the first ever successful attack on one submarine by another. 1914, October 20 – German submarine U-17 sinks SS Glitra in the first submarine sinking of a merchant ship during the world wars. [1] 1915, May 7 – German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania killing 1,198 and leaving 761 ...
On February 17, 1864, the H. L. Hunley (submarine) became the first submarine to sink a warship. Real progress began late in the century with the building of the USS Holland (SS-1), named after John Philip Holland. The USS Holland was the first submarine in the US Navy, commissioned on April 1, 1900.
First submarine to surface at the North Pole. SSN-579 Swordfish: SS-580 Barbel: Lead boat of a class of 3. First diesel-powered attack submarine with a teardrop hull. SS-581 Blueback: Last conventionally powered attack submarine in service with the US Navy. Museum ship, OMSI Museum, Portland, Oregon SS-582 Bonefish
The first fully streamlined Soviet attack submarines were the Project 671 "Yorsh" class (NATO Victor I class), which first entered service in 1967. [ 13 ] [ 24 ] China commissioned its first nuclear attack submarine Changzheng 1 (NATO Han class) in 1974, and France its first Rubis -class submarine in 1983.
On February 17, 1864, Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley made history, but neither the sub nor its crew make it back from their mission.
Prototype "fleet submarines"—submarines fast enough (21 knots (11 m/s)) to travel with battleships. Twice the size of any concurrent or past U.S. submarine. A poor tandem engine design caused the boats to be decommissioned by 1923 and scrapped in 1930.