The Boys' Book of Submarines

THE outcome of the great war that is now being waged in Europe hinges largely on the ability of the Central Powers[1] to sink the ships of the Allies[2] by means of _submarines_...

THE best way to know how a machine works is to work with it, and the next best thing to working with an actual machine is to work with a model which you have made with your own...

AS we told you in the first chapter, there are two kinds of undersea boats. These are (1) the Holland, or _submarine_ type, and (2) the Lake, or _submersible_ type. Now, the Hol...

SINCE the time of the first propelled underwater boat great strides have been made in the methods of driving the submarine, until at the present day the _power plant_ seems to b...

THE submarine is first, last, and all the time an engine of death and destruction. Even in the earliest underwater experiments, you will remember, it was fitted with a bomb the...

IT would naturally be supposed that a submarine carrying eight or more torpedoes is about as destructive an engine as human ingenuity could devise; but not so, for there are oth...

But like everything else that is needed for the welfare or warfare of the human race, inventors got busy and began to scheme and to experiment, with the big idea of making an in...

SINCE a submarine has an eye to see with, it is both proper and fitting that it should have a tongue so that it may speak and ears so that it may hear. In fact, an undersea boat...

How the Crew of a Submarine is Signed, Slept and Fed. The Mother or Base Ship and Its Uses. The Complement of the Submarine; How New Men Are Trained, and the Duties of the Crew

YOU will remember, back there in the first chapter, we told you about Fulton’s submarine and how one man operated it, so naturally he was his own superior officer and able-bodie...

These early craft had a very short range of travel and because of their poor construction and lack of power they were not at all adapted for ocean-going, hence they could not ac...

IT is the boast of Germany that she will win the present war by sinking not only all of the ships of the Allies, but those of any other country which may trade with them.

IT is less than twenty years agone that the first five baby Hollands were built in this country for, and delivered to, England, and from that time dates the beginning of the art...