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No need to go that far back. One famous one is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrol_torpedo_boat_PT-109

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Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Glowworm_(H92)

Back in WWI it still worked, with the famous HMS Dreadnought ramming a submarine.