That one slipped by me. My recollection was that the Confederacy was
far ahead in the building and deployment of submarines during the Civil
War and I didn't go back any further.
Dave Kahn wrote:
On 11/04/07, Wayne McAlpine <wayne.mcalpine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Buck, what about the USS Alligator, commissioned in 1862?
http://americancivilwar.com/tcwn/civil_war/naval_submarine.html
Wayne, what about the Turtle, used against the bloomin' British in 1776?
<http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08441.htm>
