The Submarine That Never Came Home
On February 17, 1864, the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley sank the USS Housatonic off Charleston — the first time in history a submarine destroyed a warship in combat.
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The Night They Burned Their Own Ship
On February 16, 1804, a 25-year-old American lieutenant sailed into Tripoli harbor in disguise and burned the captured frigate USS Philadelphia so the enemy could never sail her.
Seven Miles Down: The Voyage to the Bottom of the World
On January 23, 1960, Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh rode the bathyscaphe Trieste to the floor of the Challenger Deep, the deepest known point on Earth.