Category: History - Warfare
“The submarine craft is a miracle of ingenuity though Nelson and his hearts of oak, fighting only on deck, in God’s free air, and with ‘the meteor flag of England’ fluttering overhead, would have loathed and scorned her burglarious, area-sneak dodges down below.”
“The tendency of the Admiralty is to follow and not to lead other great nations. I hope that one of these days we shall not follow just a little too late.”—W. E. ARNOLD FORSTER.
5. CHAPTER III“The sea fights of the future, with improved ships, guns, and range-finders, may be fought at ranges almost beyond the ken of unaided human vision. It is to be hoped that before...
6. CHAPTER IVMr. H. G. Wells, in his “Anticipations,” confesses that his imagination, in spite even of spurring, refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocate its crew an...
4. CHAPTER II“It is not only the unstable opinions of experts, liable to sudden change, which makes the forecast of future naval war difficult; it is that the progress of invention may be, f...
18. CHAPTER XVAbout the year 1878 a gentleman in holy orders, Mr. Garrett by name, designed a submarine boat, which was built by Messrs. Cochrane, of Liverpool. It was 45 feet long, of the sh...
17. CHAPTER XIV“When you have been shown lovingly over a torpedo by an artificer skilled in the working of its tricky bowels, torpedoes have a meaning and a reality for you to the end of your...
13. Chapter V. of Part 2 deals with “the possibility of framing an Ark for“It will not be altogether impertinent,” says the author, “with the Discourse of these gradient _Automata_ to mention what Mersennus doth so pleasantly and largely descant upon...
9. CHAPTER VIIOnce, and only once, has a submarine boat succeeded in inflicting any damage on an enemy in actual warfare. This was during the American Civil War when one of the Confederate _D...
14. CHAPTER XIThe originator of the modern method of submarine warfare was David Bushnell, a native of Saybrook (now Westbrook) in the State of Maine, U.S.A., who in the latter part of the ei...
16. CHAPTER XIIIFrom the death of Robert Fulton down to the commencement of the American Civil War no very startling developments in under-water warfare are to be chronicled. During the Schlesw...
10. CHAPTER VIII“When the first submarine torpedo-boat goes into action she will bring us face to face with the most puzzling problem ever met in warfare. She will present the unique spectacle,...
15. CHAPTER XII“What will become of navies, and where will sailors be found to man ships of war, when it is a physical certainty that they may at any moment be blown into the air by means of d...
12. CHAPTER XWho invented the first boat which was capable of being propelled beneath the water? Opinions differ as to the correct answer to this question. David Bushnell’s boat (_circa_ 177...
8. CHAPTER VI“I think that the enthusiasm with which in some countries, the studies and the building of submarine boats have been accompanied is in great part due to the feeling implanted in...
7. CHAPTER V“ . . . . . . . . For this cause I will make of your warfare a terrible thing, A thing impossible, vain; For a man shall set his hand to a handle and wither Invisible armies and...
11. CHAPTER IXAlthough no mention of a submarine vessel having been actually constructed can be found earlier than the seventeenth century, and although the torpedo and the mine were not inve...
3. CHAPTER I“The submarine craft is a miracle of ingenuity though Nelson and his hearts of oak, fighting only on deck, in God’s free air, and with ‘the meteor flag of England’ fluttering ov...
2. PART III.1. CHAPTER IV.