List of Illustrations
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| U. S. Submarine M-1 | [Frontispiece] |
| Cornelius Van Drebel | [5] |
| The Rotterdam Boat | [8] |
| Symons’s Submarine | [10] |
| The Submarine of 1776 | [13] |
| The Best-known Picture of Bushnell’s Turtle | [16] |
| Another Idea of Bushnell’s Turtle | [19] |
| Ezra Lee | [21] |
| The Nautilus Invented by Robert Fulton | [28] |
| Destruction of the Dorothea | [33] |
| Views of a Confederate David | [37] |
| C. S. S. Hundley | [38] |
| Cross-section of a Whitehead Torpedo | [51] |
| Davis Gun-torpedo After Discharge, Showing Eight-inch Gun Forward of Air-flask | [53] |
| Effect of Davis Gun-torpedo on a Specially-constructed Target | [54] |
| The Intelligent Whale | [58] |
| Le Plongeur | [59] |
| Steam Submarine Nordenfeldt II, at Constantinople, 1887 | [62] |
| Bauer’s Submarine Concert, Cronstadt Harbor, 1855 | [65] |
| Apostoloff’s Proposed Submarine | [67] |
| The Holland No. 1 | [70] |
| The Fenian Ram | [73] |
| U. S. S. Holland, in Drydock with the Russian Battleship Retvizan | [77] |
| John P. Holland | [80] |
| Lake 1893 Design as Submitted to the U. S. Navy Department | [83] |
| The Argonaut Junior | [84] |
| Argonaut as Originally Built | [87] |
| Argonaut as Rebuilt | [90] |
| The Rebuilt Argonaut, Showing Pipe-masts and Ship-shaped Superstructure | [93] |
| Cross-section of Diving-compartment on a Lake Submarine | [94] |
| Cross-section of the Protector | [97] |
| Mr. Simon Lake | [98] |
| U. S. Submarine E-2 | [101] |
| A Submarine Cruiser, or Fleet Submarine (Lake Type) | [105] |
| Auxiliary Switchboard and Electric Cook-stove, in a U. S. Submarine | [107] |
| Forward Deck of a U. S. Submarine, in Cruising Trim | [109] |
| Same, Preparing to Submerge | [110] |
| Depth-control Station, U. S. Submarine | [113] |
| Cross-section of a Periscope | [114] |
| Forward Torpedo-compartment, U. S. Submarine | [117] |
| Fessenden Oscillator Outside the Hull of a Ship | [120] |
| Professor Fessenden Receiving a Message Sent Through Several Miles of Sea-water by His “Oscillator” | [121] |
| Side-elevation of a Modern Submarine | [127] |
| One Type of Safety-jacket | [131] |
| The Vulcan Salvaging the U-3 | [134] |
| Fulton’s Anchored Torpedoes | [140] |
| Sinking of the U. S. S. Tecumseh, by a Confederate Mine, in Mobile Bay | [143] |
| A Confederate “Keg-torpedo” | [144] |
| First Warship Destroyed by a Mine | [145] |
| A Confederate “Buoyant Torpedo” or Contact-mine | [146] |
| Modern Contact-mine | [150] |
| U. S. Mine-planter San Francisco | [153] |
| English Submarine Rescuing English Sailors | [157] |
| Engagement Between the Birmingham and the U-15 | [159] |
| Sinking of the Aboukir, Cressy, and Hogue | [163] |
| Tiny Target Afforded by Periscopes in Rough Weather | [167] |
| Photograph of a Submarine, Twenty Feet Below the Surface, Taken from the Aeroplane, Whose Shadow Is Shown in the Picture | [173] |
| German Submarine Pursuing English Merchantman | [182] |
| British Submarine, Showing One Type of Disappearing Deck-gun Now in Use | [190] |
THE STORY OF THE SUBMARINE
CHAPTER I
IN THE BEGINNING
If you had been in London in the year 1624, and had gone to the theater to see “The Staple of News,” a new and very dull comedy by Shakespeare’s friend Ben Jonson, you would have heard, in act III, scene i, the following dialogue about submarines: