List of submarine actions
- List of submarine actions
This is a list of notable submarine actions:
American Civil War
*1864 February 17 — human-powered submarine "H. L. Hunley" sinks sloop USS "Housatonic" with spar mine, off Charleston.
World War I
*1914 September 22 — German submarine "U-9" sinks three British armoured cruisers HMS "Aboukir", HMS "Hogue" and HMS "Cressy" in one action.
World War II
*1939 October 14 — German U-boat "U-47" sinks HMS "Royal Oak" in Scapa Flow base.
*1942 September 15 — Japanese submarine "I-19" mortally damages aircraft carrier USS "Wasp" and destroyer USS "O'Brien" and damages battleship USS "North Carolina" with a single salvo.
*1944 November 29 — USS "Archer-Fish" sinks Japanese aircraft carrier "Shinano", the largest vessel of that time.
*1945 January 30 — Soviet submarine "S-13" sinks the German ship "Wilhelm Gustloff", with older and cautious estimates of 6,000 but more recent estimates of more than 9,000 casualties.
*1945 February 6- Royal Navy submarine HMS Venturer becomes the first and only submarine to sink another submarine while they were both submerged when she sinks U864 off Norway.
*1945 April 16 — Soviet submarine "L-3" sinks the German ship "Goya", with 6,000–7,000 casualties.
Post-World War Two
*1982 May 2 — British nuclear submarine HMS "Conqueror" sinks Argentinian cruiser "General Belgrano" off the Falkland Islands. (first sinking by a nuclear-powered submarine in war, one of two submarine kills since World War II). This was the first, and only time a nuclear submarine has attacked in an act of war.
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