THE SUBMARINE BOAT

Dunstan Times, Issue 2154, 28 October 1902, Page 7

THE SUBMARINE BOAT

Its Rtceti «fii it*Nariea. ;1 ‘ | N**r VTHI «X Mvisfl Woe VftMftte Hove Been Invest#* Be* Few Have Peeve* «e Be rrsetllSbl*. \ The f««t of the French cubfnerice boat Gustave Zede in attaching a dummy torpedo under water to the hull of the; turret ship Jaureguiberry i* of interest in itself,ibht important chiefly as Showing the extent to which manVcontrol of ”Ch*watereunder the earth” ha* reache says the New York Sun. f ’■ Although attempt* to pro due* *ubmarinfe Vessel* rhaNre been made for centuries past, ft I* only within the last f6ur'oir’llvh ; y-ekr» that one of them has obtained a measure of succee*. That 'atteinp't’-%*■• made by Mr. John P.-Holland, of thru city, who. tafter ■SO years of Trial and Mjiy*. ,at”* last produced the veasel nAsifed for him, the Holland. Mr. Holland’* first Aubmarlne Ye&sel was built during the"’GOV; hi* first successful vessel was launched in iff 97, tested contio,.uously by the'government’for inahy month's, and finally bought for the naVy. The success of thi* vessel attracted attention from foreign navies, and the French at once began again energetically experiments in submarine navigation which had languished some years. On our part we began a vessel, named the Plunger, a larger boat than this Holland, and intended to be an Improvementover the first. Many Change* in the equipment were made, but the result has not been successful, and radical changes must be made, bringing her back nearly to the form of the Holland, berfore »ha can attain any -success. >! ’ ' ’ ? Meantime, six other submarine boats Of the real Holland type were ordfc'red by the wavy department; four of’ the Adder, Moccasin, Porpoise and Shark, are building at Elizabethport, and two, the Grampus and Pike, at San Francisco. These are all of 120 ton*' displacement; they will be 63 1-3 feet long, 11% feet beam, and will have a gae engine developing 160 horse power for propulsion bn the surface, and an electric motor operated by storage batteries and developing TO horse power will carry five Whitehead torpedoee, which can be discharged when the vessel » submerged or on the surfao*, at rest or at full speed. The French navy hoc not used the Holland- system, but hsa developed one of its own apparently success. The Gym note, launched in. 1888, woe not wholly successful, but the Ou'etavfe 2tede, built in 1993, Kae within a feW' months been brought to a high state of perfection. The Morse and the Narval have also been proved valuable and besides the ten other submarines now afloat or building, the French -government hoe just ordered the construction of 20 more, ten to be built ot Toulon, oa-the Mediterranean, six at Rochefort, and four at Cherbourg, on the Atlantic coast. Great Britan, affected, 4$ first to disregard the submarine boat experiments of our own and the French navies, but within a few months the news leaked out that the admiralty had ordered five vessel* of the Holland type, which are now under construction by the Vickers-Maiim company. These vessels are duplicates of those building for this country. Italy and Norway are experimenting with submarines, also, the former country having in hand the Delfinb of ib 7 ton* displacement, while the Norwegian 1 navy proposes to build six Holland vesj sels. Sweden, too, has taken up the i subject, hut is inclined to approve s system devised by a Swedish engineer named Enroth, rather than to' fAlroW the Holland type. Tho Enroth boat is of 146 tons’ displacement when submerged, and uses steam and condensed air for submarine propulsion. She will carry four Whitehead torpedoes. . Almost every navy has earned suoKinarine vessel* of some aort on its litit years; Turkey ha* had ttvo sdeh vessels since 1886, and a* seen the successful Gustave Zede launched in 1393. But it 1* owing ♦« the success of the Holland that the study of submarine warfare ha* received such an impetua. . An All-Aroon* BM*. A certain government officer W»l noted for being a hard taskmaster to those who were under him, the servants in his own establishment being ne exception. Hi* valet wai expected to be on duty 365 full days in the year. Being detailed to accompany a «h* entitle expedition on an extended cruise, the officer unbent a little !ft communicating the new* to hi* personal attendant. “Well, Jamce,” he said, ”boer Fould you like to go with is* around the world?” “Do we go from e»*t to we*t, *»rT” asked the valet. ' J ' J ' • “Yes.” i “We lose a day Is going that Way, don’t we?” “We do.” “Well, sir, I’d like it first-rate. It would give me one day off.” His master was so pleased with the aptness of the retort that he gave him a week ot- to prepare tor the trip.— Youth’s Companion. Hasn’t Got Them How. “I hear, Mrs. Jone*, that your husband has two revolver* and a Winchester rifle for any burglar* who may call.” "He had, but they came the night and stole them.”—London TitBit#. - ''