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Timeline

Y/M/D Description Place
1776/09/06 Sergeant Ezra Lee, in David Bushnell's one-man submarine, Turtle, unsuccessfully tries to attach mines to Admiral Richard Howe's flagship, HMS Eagle, anchored near Governors Island Governors Island,
1800/00/00 Robert Fulton completes his submarine, NAUTILUS, for the French Navy.
1864/02/17 Rammed by H L HUNLEY's torpedo, the USS HOUSATONIC burns for three minutes before sinking, killing two officers and three men. Sullivan's Island, SC, South Carolina
1915/05/07 An unusually heavy detonation takes place with a very strong explosive cloud.... The ship stops immediately and heels over to starboard very quickly, immersing simultaneously at the bow.... - U-20 Captain Walther Schwieger on torpedoing the LUSITANIA RMS Lusitania (shipwreck),

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