Category: History - Warfare

The Submarine in War and Peace: Its Development and its Possibilities

What is a modern submarine boat? A modern submarine vessel is a complex mechanism capable of being navigated on the surface of the water just as is any boat, but with the added faculty of disappearing at will beneath the surface, and of being operated beneath the surface in an...

Chapters

3. CHAPTER III

The experiences of the pioneer inventors of the submarine, if known in detail, would undoubtedly afford many amusing incidents as well as some tragic ones. Some of these have be...

2. CHAPTER II

One of the first queries which laymen usually direct at the submarine navigator is, "Are you not afraid that the boat will never come up?" and other variants on the same theme....

4. CHAPTER IV

Among the many submarines which were built previous to the beginning of the present century, very few taught lessons of positive value, for the great majority of these experimen...

5. CHAPTER V

The submarine boat is the guerilla in warfare. Its tactics are the tactics of the Indian who fights under cover or lies in ambush for his enemy. These are necessarily the tactic...

6. CHAPTER VI

In the present European war, for the first time in the world's history, the submarine, as is also the case with the airplane, has taken an important active part, and has become...

7. CHAPTER VII

So engrossed have been governments, inventors, capitalists, and the public in general, in the development of the submarine vessel for military purposes, and in the perfection an...

1. CHAPTER I

What is a modern submarine boat? A modern submarine vessel is a complex mechanism capable of being navigated on the surface of the water just as is any boat, but with the added...

8. CHAPTER VIII

Studies of the submarine which deal with the subject solely from the engineering or military standpoint, or which treat of the development of this weapon simply in the light of...