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| Tango01 | 02 Feb 2015 12:33 p.m. PST |
"from the 17th century and earlier, with military versions appearing in the American Revolution, War of 1812 and the Crimean War. The Hunley's attack didn't mark the opening of submarine warfare in the Civil War, nor would her loss mark the end of it. The Union Navy had used the submersible Alligator to little effect until her loss in a storm in 1863, while the Hunley's builders had completed at least two working "submarine propellers" in the South prior to building the Hunley. Various other inventors on both sides had built, tested and possibly even deployed submarines on covert missions. How they were deployed, though, would be shaped by the North and South's goals in the final years of the Civil War…" Full article here
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completes his initial Union force in 1:72nd scale.