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The submarine known as the H.L. Hunley, which was used by the CSA during the ACW, is famous for being the first combat submarine to sink an enemy warship. The vessel was designed by Horace Lawson Hunley, James McClintock, and Baxter Watson and it was given Hunley's name after he died when the vessel sank during a test. Also after the Hunley's successful mission of sinking the USS Housatonic it sank was lost and was lost with all hands onboard due to unknown reasons with no other submarines built after it.

Now let’s say that Horace Lawson Hunley had not died and that he and his team had been more successful than in OTL. This then allows them to make more submarines like the Hunley, which was called the fish boat," the "fish torpedo boat," and the "porpoise." Before Hunley’s death. With this being the case what other uses would the CSA make out of such submersibles and which ships may have been their next targets?

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