Confederate Aquanef

Hot on the heels of the Tsar's designers are the Confederate Aquanef builders!

CSS David Charleston 1865 - public domain image

Confederate inventors were the first on the board when William Cheeney developed a small three man submersible in the James River of Virginia in 1861 shortly after the outbreak of hostilities. A second, larger craft was developed by the same team and was similarly experimental. Cheeney’s craft were unsuccessful and were poorly documented although their existence was reported by Union spies. They were the first of a long line of curious craft...

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