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On this day in 1863, the C.S.S. Hunley, the worldâs firstsuccessful combat submarine, sinks during a test run, killing its inventor and seven crewmembers. Horace Lawson Hunley developed the 40-foot submarine from a cylinder boiler.
The night she sank, on February 17, 1864, the Hunley was on a mission to torpedo the USS Housatonic, a Federal war ship. For safety s sake, the sub was to stay on the water s surface. It did, and successfully rammed its spar into the ship s wooden side, retreated, and detonated 41 kg of explosives.