THE SUBMARINE: A History

From: Sea Power | Date: June 1, 2004| Author: Munns, David W | Copyright information

THE SUBMARINE: A History by Thomas Parrish, New York, N.Y.: Viking Publishing, May 2004. 576 pp. $29.95 ISBN: 0-670-03313-8

At the outset of the Civil War, the Rev. Franklin Smith, "a Tennessee inventor as well as a preacher," proposed a new "cigar-shaped craft that could move underwater to attack enemy ships" to combat President Abraham Lincoln's blockade of the Confederate coast. The result was the H.L. Hunley. Its initial promise as a warship was somewhat overshadowed by the death o...

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