A NEW SUBMARINE VESSEL.
A young Roumanian engiueer, Trajan Theodoresco, has succeeded in constructing a submarine vessel which puts everything that has gone before it in submarine navigation completely in the shade. This boat, up to a certain maximum size and corresponding tonnage, it is said, may be navigated under water for twelve hours at a stretch, at a depth of a hundred feet; she may, however, according to the inventor, be lowered to over 300 feet below the surface of the water, and without coming into contact with the atmosphere. On the surface of the water the vessel may be manoeuvred under the same conditions as an ordinary steamboat. Her speed, however, is not so great as that of steamers, but greater than that of sailing vessels. The submersion is effected by screws and vertically, either suddenly or successively, and the vessel is raised in the same way. If once under water, sufficient light is supplied enabling those on board to see all obstacles at all distances up to 130 feet, and the movements of the boat may be so regulated as to avoid them. The air supplied for the crew is said to last for from twelve to fourteen hours. In case of need, the reservoir containing the air may be refilled, while under water, for another twelve hours, pipes telescoping into each other being directed to the surface for that purpose. The propulsion of the vessel and its submersion are stated to cause no noise. Should all these particulars prove correct, the novel boat will be the most formidable vessel for torpedo warfare. But she may also be turned to more useful purposes. In the Matebin Braila, there lies, since May, 1877, the Lutti Djelit, which had on board the war chest of the Turkish Danube flotilla, amounting, so report says, to several million piastres. It might be possible to recover that sum by means of the new submarine boat, and if the experiment should prove successful, it would at the same time be profitable. —lron.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1014, 20 December 1881, Page 4
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339A NEW SUBMARINE VESSEL. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1014, 20 December 1881, Page 4
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