French submarine Plongeur

[Sedalia Dave]

 

French submarine Plongeur

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_submarine_Plongeur#

[Sedalia Dave]

I did some looking and I couldn't see where they ever tested their Spar Torpedo. I suspect that if they had, the crew would have suffered the same fate as the crew of the Hunley

[Pat Riot]

“Plongeur” means “Diver”.
 

Any ship can dive. Only the specially designed ones can resurface. 

[watab kid]

5 hours ago, Pat Riot said:

“Plongeur” means “Diver”.
 

Any ship can dive. Only the specially designed ones can resurface. 

aint that the truth , made me think of the USS Thresher

[Bailey Creek,5759]

Didn't the Hunley crew run out of air?

[Cypress Sun]

58 minutes ago, Bailey Creek,5759 said:

Didn't the Hunley crew run out of air?

 

Sort of. They were incapacitated by the blast shock waves from their "torpedo" charge. The Hunley then drifted away from their target, the Housatonic. The Housatonic sunk in just a few minutes after the blast. The outgoing tide carried the Hunley eastward into the Atlantic. The skeletons of the crew were found to be in their combat positions in the wreck of the Hunley.