 Pioneer (submarine)

Pioneer was the first of three submarines privately developed and paid for by Horace Lawson Hunley, James McClintock, and Baxter Watson.While the United States Navy was constructing its first submarine, USS "Alligator", during the American Civil War in late 1861, the Confederates were doing so as well.Hunley, McClintock and Watson built "Pioneer" in New Orleans, Louisiana.