Pioneer (submarine)

Pioneer (submarine)

Pioneer was the first of three submarines privately developed and paid for by Horace Lawson Hunley, James McClintock and Baxter Watson.

Hunley, McClintock and Watson built "Pioneer" in New Orleans, Louisiana. "Pioneer" was tested in February 1862 in the Mississippi River, and was later towed to Lake Pontchartrain for additional trials, but the Union advance towards New Orleans the following month prompted the men to abandon development and scuttle "Pioneer" in the New Basin Canal.

The scuttled "Pioneer" was raised and examined by Union troops.

The New Orleans "Picayune" of 15 February 1868 reported "Pioneer" had been sold for scrap. [ [http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2007-09-11/blake.php Best of New Orleans website] ]

The Bayou St. John Confederate Submarine, now in the collection of the Louisiana State Museum, was for decades misidentified as "Pioneer". The Bayou submarine and "Pioneer" may have undergone trials at about the same time and confusion between the two may date back to contemporary accounts; it is not clear which of the two was constructed first.

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