Civil War Submarine | Secret Weapon of the Confederacy
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2011
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How did the earliest wartime submarine operate?
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Civil War Submarine | Secret Weapon of the Confederacy
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Those guys had balls of steel.
All the way back in the 1860s we had subs? I thought the Monitor and the Merrimack were advanced. But this blows those two (pardon my pun) right out of the water.
+Strategos Manatee I don't think the torpedoes were launched from tubes like in a modern submarine. What happened was the torpedo was rammed into the side of an enemy ship like a harpoon, and a timer set off the explosives.
Strategos Manatee it didn’t it stabbed a ship with the point at the front
There was also the uss alligator
@@twistedyogert Actually there was a cable attached between the explosive and the Hunley. When the vessel moved away the cable uncoiled. When the cable was fully extended it detonated the device.
The submarine was invented in 1620
This cursed object was such a death-trap that it killed every single crewmember that ever piloted it, including the engineer who it's named after.
Almost every new piece of technology is dangerous.
@@twistedyogert hi
No, there actually were a few survivors. 3 people survived the first accident with the H.L. Hunley: Lt. John Payne and 2 others managed to escape (August 29, 1863). The second and third crews had all hands lost, though.
Horace L. Hunley built 3 submarines during the Civil War, the first was built in New Orleans but was scuttled when Admiral Farragut took the big easy, the second was built in Mobile, Alabama & was called "the American Diver" it sank while on a test dive with the loss of all hands. the Hunley was also built in Mobile & was moved by rail to Charleston. Hunley sank & was recovered twice before her attack on the Housitonic.
There was also a *union* submarine called USS Alligator. They are still trying to find it.
Hunley Himself died on the last shakedown cruise.
"somebody put some style in it" I love it haha
Such simple technology could be so effective
@Fuscoooo they only used the air they had in the sub at the time. They had either candles lit or a pet bird and when that candle went out or the bird passed out they knew it was time for more air.
The Hunley sank the Union sloop of war U.S.S. Housitonic just outside Charleston harbor, it survived the attack, signaled back to land with a blue light but sank while returning to charleston. the Hunley was found & raised in 1995 & has been going through the preservation process to protect her from further deterioration, the remains of her crew were removed & forensically Identified & were interred with full military honors.
Kenneth Draper I understand a proper burial, But they fought for a country that killed 300,000 + US soliders and civilians.
how does a country award military honors to soldiers it fought against?
@@gfoot9916 Abraham Lincoln gave all the Confederate veterans the honor of being US veterans so when one died they were treated as US veterans.
The Hunley was found in 1995, but it wasn't raised until august of 2000.
@@gfoot9916 HONOR - A concept you obviously don't understand
I didn't even know they had submarines in the civil war. Interesting.
I just got an ad for US navy submarines before the video perfect timing
Outstanding, crystal clear... Thanks for the brief info.
woah super neat
I haven't watched this video yet, but I'm going to say that I assume the Hunley sank due to the CS Navy engineers and planners not accounting for how blast pressure works underwater, and that the torpedo either cracked the Hunleys' hull, or the shockwave ruptured the crews' organs
Nice! I'm actually studying the Hunley in Archeology :) Cool stuff.
They say the fate of the crew was determined by the blast itself that sank the Housatonic. They probably weren't far enough when the charge went off causing the blast waves to go through the sub and her crew. This concussion may have ripped through lung tissue and incapacitated the crew right then.
That's my bet cuz they were all at their stations and no emergency procedures were even tried.
@0bbah It was actually pretty effective. In submarines, they would rise up, then throw a grenade onto its enemy's boat. Btw, I studied the Civil War. ;p
wheres the rest
cool video!!
What was it's weapon?
The original weapon of the H.L. Hunley was a towed contact mine, but it was decided to be swapped out for a spar torpedo mounted on the bow. Several factors led to this decision:
1. The Confederates had to come up with an alternate means of attack since the Union Navy learned about the south's "secret weapon". Union Admiral John Dahlgren ordered the Union fleet to take defensive measures. Towed contact mines became ineffective with these added defensive measures (e.g. a chain or "boom" wall which could be lowered over the sides to prevent a submerged vessel from slipping underneath). The attack on the U.S.S. New Ironsides by a 'David' boat only confirmed the Union Navy's suspicions that the Confederates were... Up to something. Union naval command knew that an attack by the south's infernal "fish boat" was imminent; they just didn't know when exactly.
2. After the two accidents with the Hunley submarine, Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard no longer allowed the submarine to attempt an attack while submerged - too risky. The Hunley could still perform dives but during actual combat it had to remain surfaced. Using a spar torpedo mounted on the bow proved much more practical and easier to control than a towed contact mine.
There was a misconception that the torpedo mounted on the spar was detonated by a string controlled by the Captain, but after the Hunley was found it was revealed that the torpedo was actually designed to detonate on impact; making the operation of the "peripatetic coffin" all that much more dangerous.
It has the kd ratio of a v2 rocket
@InsideDating Ok look, during the Civil War, conical bullets were available. It's different from the lead balls because it was much more accurate. So, during the Civil War, there was no standing in formation or none of that shit because it's pretty much pointless now since the first one to shoot is pretty much the winner of the battle. Instead of standing in a line the "gentlemanly" way, you had soldiers running to cover behind walls and ditches.
woah cool
Like a round rowboat, with a pilot instead of a coxswain? Those poor men.
I have no love for the confederacy, even as a Texan, but this was definitely a brilliant piece of military hardware. Human ingenuity is everywhere.
Just cause you live in Austin doesnt make you a "Texan"
The thing sunk 3 or 4 times
How did they breath?
The CSS Hunley wasn't the first civil war submarine, it was the CSS Manassa
check the naval history slash Manassas
let's try to find this ship as it was scuttled and may be accessible today in the ocean.
The Manassas was a ironclad ram, not submarine.
they had a schnorkle system on the Hunley, but never got it to work right. they could stay completely submerged for up to 3 hours.
2:22 WARCRAFT
@0bbah Water? You mean, like, the entire East coast of the USA where the battle was fought?
@legendkilla360 nope you're not.
Imagine being voluntold to go into this death trap after multiple people have already died. Just shoot me to skip on the steps lol.
@Fuscoooo likely they surfaced i guess
I'm sorry.... I've been reading about it but different models of the hunley confuses me every time.....
Could someone please explain how the torpedo works?
Grenades had already been created that could explode by the end plate being hit with enough force. I imagine they but a bomb on a stick and rammed that bomb into the bottom of a ship
@InsideDating The Redcoats where the only ones to line up 'gentlemanly' thats why we where able to beat them.
hahaha good one
Google Bill Cosby coin toss. All will be explained.
RULES 1 AND 2
How much horsepower could those men produce?
GregoryTheGr8ster Quite a bit. Men back then were generally built with more muscle due to hard labor and farmwork. Considering many of the Confederates were farmers, you had yourself a powerful army by those standards.
@Orion688 do you usually believe everything you're told on youtube?
@quakepapi Didn't realize you were a warship designer in the middle of a war in the mid 1800s. Guess we have to rewrite history because you don't think it happened.
Quem mais veio pelo Manual do Mundo?
Yeah but was it safe to take down to the Titanic?
Sure why not
*gEt YoUr HaNdS oFf Me JoE*
Them Dixie boys know sum
First :D
WHO CARES
@@beastieman4207 that was 7 years ago
Even though the people who piloted and created the submarine were confederate, they are still heroes.
@ericsyutubeaccount Nahhhh i've just never been first :)
Hearing the sailors at the last part of the video fighting for their lives was kinda funny 😄
@quakepapi So i thought it was just a joke that the south had a bad education system. Hmmm.... i guess i was wrong.