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Which Navy was the first to fire a torpedo to a target from a submarine?
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"Shooting" a torpedo is the proper term; the word "Fire" means only one thing aboard a submarine, and it has nothing to do with launching weapons.
While the Nordenfelt-designed Turkish submarine Abdülhamid (1886) was the first submarine in the world to shoot a torpedo while submerged, it did not shoot at a designated target.
The first submarine credited with shooting a torpedo underwater at a designated target (albeit a missed shot) was the Royal Hellenic Navy's (Greek) submarine Delfin, on December 22, 1912. The Delfin was shooting at the Ottoman light cruiser Mecidiye, at a range of 800m.
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