20,000 MILES UNDER THE SEA.

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6597, 9 May 1925, Page 2

20,000 MILES UNDER THE SEA.

Submarine K 26, the largest underwater craft in the British Navy, has just completed a 20,000 mile voyage, the longest ever made by a submarine.

Though the voyage lasted eight months, officers and crew lived aboard the submarine throughout the whole cruise without any assistance from a parent ship. Everything that was required was carried in the submarine itself.

This notable feat carries one back to the pioneer experiments in submarine navigation made in America at the end of the eighteenth century. What would the men who made them or the first Napoleon, who also showed considerable interest in the subject, have thought of K 26?

Even Charles Brun, who built the first mechanically propelled submarine in France, in 1863, had probably no idea of the tremendous future which was to open out before the new invention.