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| Tango01 | 11 Oct 2014 9:24 p.m. PST |
"During the American Civil War President Lincoln instituted a naval blockade of southern ports in 1861, severly limited the South's capacity getting raw materials from foriegn suppliers to maintain their war efforts. They also lacked the resources for building a fleet of ships that was capable of defeating the Union Navy. The Confederacy responded by constructing David class torpedo boats to break the blockade. The metaphor of "David and Goliath" is not lost in what these small fast boats were expected to do to the much larger Union war ships. This new class of semi-submersible vessle was designed to ride just inches above the water line leaving just a small portion of the deck and the smokestack visable. While running at night, using a smokeless anthracite coal, these boats were nearly invisable. It attacked using a spar torpedo which it would ram into an enemy ship"
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