For decades US destroyer men were saying that they sank a Japanese Mini-Sub outside the mouth of Pearl Harbor before the air attack began on 07 Dec 1941. And for decades, no one believed them. Then, sometime in this 21st century, a civilian diving sub went down to where the destroyermen said they sank a IJN sub. They brought one of the destroyer's crewman with them...they found the IJN sub! They always said they hit it with their 5 inch mount from their destroyer, the USS Ward. Sure enough, there was a 5 inch hole in the sub's conning tower; it went all the way through and outside the other end, without exploding (this was televised, possibly National Geographic). J-u-s-t like they said!
The Confederate submarine 'H L Hunley' was the first submarine to sink an enemy ship
The H. L. Hunley was the name of the Confederate submarine that was the first combat submarine to sink an enemy ship.
a cofederate submarine ws the first to sink an enemy ship.What was the name of the submrine?
H. L. Hunley was the name of the Confederate submarine that was used during the American Civil War. It was the first combat submarine to successfully sink an enemy ship.
You drag the word "submarine" itself onto the submarine. Then you wait for it to sink.
The German submarine U-21 sank the British cruiser Pathfinder on September 5, 1914. U-21 survived the entire World War 1 but sank while sailing to port to surrender after war's end. The Confederate submarine Hunley sank a US Navy ship, but sunk herself for reasons that remain uncertain.
Submarine
No because the Lusitania is a passenger ocean liner should not been torpedoed by the German navy submarine.
The first submarine was called the Turtle or American Turtle. It was a one man submarine and powered like a bicycle. It was designed to attach explosive devices to the hulls of British ships. All such attempts failed.
it does NOT "sink" - unless by accident or enemy action. It "submerges" - so that it can act stealthily, moving around below the ocean surface so it is very hard to detect.
A Confederate Submarine was first to sink an enemy Submarine, I think in the Civil War. It was called The CSS Huntley. Alternate answer: The CSS Hunley was a Confederate submarine in the US Civil War. It played a minor role in the war itself but it played a much larger role in illustrating the pros and cons of underwater warfare.
The first Commissioned U.S. Submarine recognized by the Naval Historical Center as sunk by Enemy Action was the USS Shark (SS-174), sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy Destroyer Yamakaze, in the Makassar Strait, on February 11, 1942. Though wartime records show her as reported missing and overdue/presumed lost, post-war Japanese records show that the Yamakaze sank a surfaced submarine with 5" gunfire on that day, in the area where Shark was supposed to be.While there are other Navy submarines that did sink in WWI and in WWII prior to the Perch, they were either sunk by onboard problems or were damaged by friendly vessels. Most were also eventually refloated and salvaged, and returned to service.