Who invented the submarine and built the first working version that actually sank a vessel.?

Answer 1

The Confederate Ship the Hunley was the first true submarine to ever sink another vessel. (1864) The concept was already there. The Confereracy was the first to successfully build one and make it work. Too bad it claimed the lives of the crews.

Answer 2

In 1620 Cornelis Drebbel invented the first submarine - an human oared submersible.

H.L. Hunley was a Confederate submersible that demonstrated the advantage and danger of undersea warfare. Although not this nation's first submarine, Hunley was the first submarine to engage and sink a warship

Privately built in 1863 by Park and Lyons of Mobile, Alabama, Hunley was fashioned from a cylindrical iron steam boiler, which was deepened and also lengthened through the addition of tapered ends. Hunley was designed to be hand powered by a crew of nine: eight to turn the hand-cranked propeller and one to steer and direct the boat. As a true submarine, each end was equipped with ballast tanks that could be flooded by valves or pumped dry by hand pumps. Extra ballast was added through the use of iron weights bolted to the underside of the hull. In the event the submarine needed additional buoyancy to rise in an emergency, the iron weight could be removed by unscrewing the heads of the bolts from inside the vessel.

Answer 3

John Holland Invented The modern submarine, He was an Irish engineer who designed a vessel called the Fenian Ram to sink British navy vessels, the prototype Holland 1 was however adopted by the royal navy and perfected by them, there were earlier submarines but this was the original modern sub , electro diesel , ballast tanks ,bough planes , conning tower, torpedo's. all the basics.
Submarines are safer than air planes. Proof in the fact is there are more air planes in the water than submarines in the air!

Answer 4

The submarine was invented in 1624 by a man named Cornelius van Drebbel. However, Leonardo da Vinci drew out the basic concept of a submarine over one hundred years before. Drebbel, a Dutch inventor and engineer employed by the British navy constructed a leather- covered rowboat from which oars protruded through watertight seals. Drubbel's ship could stay underwater for a few hours, but it only went about fifteen feet under the surface.

Answer 5

The submarine H. L. HUNLEY was privately built in the spring of 1863 in
the machine shop of Park and Lyons, Mobile, Ala., under the direction of
Confederate Army Engineers, Lt. W. A. Alexander and G. E. Dixon, 21st
Alabama Volunteer Regiment, from plans furnished by Horace L. Hunley,
James R. McClintock and Baxter Watson...................................Charleston S.C./look here...http://www.hunley.org/main_index.asp?CONTENT=OYSTER


H. L HUNLEY was raised and reconditioned by Lt. G. E. Dixon and Lt. W.
A. Alexander but General Beauregard refused to permit her to dive again.
She was fitted with a “Lee spar-torpedo” and adjusted to float on the
surface, being ballasted down so that only her manholes showed above the
water. For more than 3 months the submarine went out an average of 4
nights a week from Battery Marshall, Beach Inlet, Sullivan’s Island.
Steering compass bearings taken from the beach on Federal ships taking
anchor for the night, she failed time and time again because of
circumstances: the distance of the closest blockader often 6 to 7 miles
away, the conditions of tide, wind and sea, or physical exhaustion of
her crew who sometimes found themselves in danger of being swept out to
sea in the underpowered craft.

Then on the night of 17 February 1864 she found her destiny in the
Federal steam sloop-of-war HOUSATONIC anchored in about 27 feet of water
some 2 miles from Battery Marshall in the north channel entrance to
Charleston Harbor. Approaching silently through calm waters, H. L.
HUNLEY made a daring attack in bright moonlight and approached within a
hundred yards of the blockader before HOUSATONIC’s lookouts spied the
Confederate craft. By the time observers determined she was not a log or
other harmless object, she was so close that the heavy guns of
HOUSATONIC could not be depressed sufficiently to come to bear. She
approached the keel of her victim at right angles and came under small
arms fire from the watch officers and men of the HOUSATONIC.
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Answer 6

The father of the modern submarine is John Holland, who built the first working sub during the civil war era. His closest competition was Simon Lake.

Answer 7

The first workable submarine that actually sank a ship, was the Confiderate States underwater boat, the HUNLEY. She was built by a man named HUNLEY and has been recovered from her watery grave and is being restored.

Do a google search on The Hunley... and you can find out where she is and when you can go see her... it's worth the effort, so please look it up.

Answer 8

Ask google, Jeeves
I know the CSS H.L. Hunley was built back in the civil war tho sink the north.
Held 9 people. Built in 1864
Visit a history website.