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CSS Pioneer II (American Diver). Confederate. Submarine. Length 36 feet, beam 3 feet, draft 4 feet, speed 5 knots. Had hand cranks to power the propeller. Complement of five. Built in 1863 at Mobile, Ala., from an old boiler with backing from Horace L. Hunley and James McClintock. Was sunk off Fort Morgan on February 14, 1863, while being towed in rough weather on the way to Fort Morgan to attack the Union fleet. (Bass, Ships and Shipwrecks of the Americas, 226; WCWN, 221; Cussler and Dirgo, Sea Hunters, 183–84; Hicks and Kropf, Raising the Hunley, 24–31.)

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