THE INTERIOR OF A SUBMARINE.
, • -.Life on a submarine on active,service is quite diiferont to life in any other formof service in the navy.; The greatest depth to which'submarines.go does'..not exceed .thirty.feet, but as a : rilo.-they .travel fifteen feet bolow tho wator. The air is quite "breathable" for four hoiirs, but in.tho'case of emergency, thanks to specialde- ; vices, crew can remain .seventy- honrs olosed upina submarine, without danger to their lives. The highest etandiiig-room in the. interior of a submarine is 6ft. (im. , high, and towards both ends the roof gradually declines and the floor becomes narrower. The hull tapers away, to'd point, so much so, indeed, that as one proceeds one must crawl: on all fours. There is no portholes.: The hatchway of the conning ;'tower is the only but when this is closed—while 'the ;is under' ,watel^Tclect^ic l lamps illumine tho small spaco. There are ventilators,, of 'course, but,v;hen tho. submarine dive-s they, are.shilt off with : a; cap.' Thore ; aro iioipoiti- ,; tipns'on i 'thia_Trnique.deckj the'life on board !a.subnianße--is : essentially "in piim- ''•■ ,: :■-.■••: -.' .:■'; '■ •
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 669, 20 November 1909, Page 6
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173THE INTERIOR OF A SUBMARINE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 669, 20 November 1909, Page 6
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