A Submarine Vessel.
Ak attempt is being made to realise in actual work a dream of fiction. But such is the new submarine boat, Le Goubet, which Prince Waldemar of Denmark is now staying at Cherbourg to test. The idea of this boat was taken from a novel of Jules Verne’s. The vessel is to be equally capable of sailing on the surface of the water or diving below it. It is like a fish in form, and can go below the submerged chains in harbours7 can run round buoys, and can cut cables and wires with the shears at its keel. It is not hard to transport by land. It is as easy to hang on to the davits of a vessel as a lifeboat. A Paris correspondent telegraphs that on Monday the two men who work this curious little vessel stayed several hours under water without feeling any inconvenience. They take with them a supply of oxygen, which enables them to breathe freely when below the surface, and they can eat their meals quite comfortably. The inventor is M. Goubet, after whom the boat is called. If he succeeds as he expects he will receive a large order from Russia.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 459, 2 April 1890, Page 3
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202A Submarine Vessel. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 459, 2 April 1890, Page 3
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