A NEW SUBMARINE VESSEL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 607, 17 November 1881, Page 3

A NEW SUBMARINE VESSEL.

A young Roumenian engineer, Trajan Theodoresco, lias succeeded in constructing a submarine vessel which puts everything that has gone before 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 100 ft ; she may, however, according to the inventor, be lowered to over 3d Oft below the surface of the water, and without coming into contact w’th the atm spbere. On the surface of the water the vessel may be mancauvrcd under the

game conditions as an ordinary steamboat. Her speed, however, is not so great as that, of steamers, but greater than than 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 to enable those on board to see

obstacles at all distances up to 130 ft. and the movements of the boat may be so regulated as to avoid them. The air supplied for the crew is said to last from 12 to 14 hours. In case of need, the

reservoir containing the air may be re filled, while under water, for another 12 hours, pipes telescoping into each other being directed to the surface for that purpose. The provision of the vessel and its submersion are stated to cause no noise, Should all these particulars

1 prove correct, the novel boat will be the I most formidable for torpedo warfare, i But she may also he turn.d to more use- ' fu! purposes. In the Mate-bin Canal, j near Braila, there lies, since May, 1877, I the Lifffi Djelit, which had on board the war-chcst of the Turkish Danube flotilla, am muting, 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, —Iron.