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Our American Stories

The First Successful Submarine Attack In History

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6817 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Our American Stories, the CSS Hunley's sinking of the Housatonic was only a partial success, but represents the first time a submarine managed to sink an enemy vessel...and it happened in Charleston Harbor during the Civil War.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.5

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0:07.1

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0:08.4

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0:11.1

I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet.

0:13.9

And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told.

0:17.4

Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company

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he built.

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Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it.

0:27.3

And then boom, it's everywhere.

0:29.3

And that was that moment.

0:30.7

Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:44.6

Yeah. or wherever you get your podcast. This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, the show where America is the star

0:50.5

and the American people.

0:52.9

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1:00.3

Up next a story from the South Carolina Military Museum in Columbia, the state capital.

1:06.1

The first successful submarine attack on February 17, 1864, was only a partial success.

1:14.6

When it was all said and done, the USS Housatonic laid on the bottom of Charleston Harbor.

1:21.1

But so did the sub, the CSS Hunley.

1:24.9

Here's John Freeman with the story.

1:33.7

Music S.S. Hunley. Here's John Freeman with the story. The Hunley wasn't built here. It wasn't even the first submersible type craft used by

1:38.7

the Confederacy, so they had something else called the David, which was called a semi-summersible.

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