SUBMARINE BOATS.
By Telegraph Press Association Copyright. London, March 17. Trials have been made at Cherbourg to test the respective merits of submersible boats and submarine boats. It is understood that the submersibles proved their superiority and that the French Naval Commissioners present ,at the inquiry consider the submarine type will become obsolete.
The distinction between submarines a.nd submersibles is that the former go right out of sight while the latter submerge to fcho eonning-towor or to the periscope. Tlio British boats of Holland type are designed to attack with the periscope only showing. The boats, on sighting an enemy, would sink to the conning-tower, and when 3000 yards off to the periscope. It is yet doubtful whether the French with their submarines have ever been able to fire a torpedo with effect.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12819, 20 March 1905, Page 5
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