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A 16th-century Islamic painting depicting Alexander the Great being lowered in a glass submersible. The concept of underwater transport has roots deep in antiquity. There are images of men using hollow sticks to breathe underwater for hunting at the temples at Thebes, and the first known military use occurred during the siege of Syracuse (415–413 BC), where divers cleared obstructions ...
A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater. (It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability.) [2] The term “submarine” is also sometimes used historically or informally to refer to remotely operated vehicles and robots, or to medium-sized or smaller vessels (such as the midget submarine and the wet sub).
HMS K11 was a K class submarine built by Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle upon Tyne. K11 was laid down in October 1915, and commissioned in February 1917. It had a complement of 59 crew members.
These were mostly used for training in anti-submarine warfare and removed from service by mid-1944. S boats saw service in World War II in both the Atlantic and the Pacific . Smaller and slower than the later fleet submarines produced for war service, and lacking the range for Pacific Ocean patrols (as well as being 20 years old), they were ...
First submarine built for the Confederate States Navy of America. On display at the Capitol Park Museum - Baton Rouge. Pioneer: Horace Lawson Hunley: Feb 1862: 25 Apr 1862: Built for the Confederate States Navy. A replica is at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center. USS Alligator: Neafie & Levy: 1 May 1862: 2 Apr 1863: First United States Navy ...
Cod went to the rescue of a grounded Dutch submarine HNLMS O-19, taking its crew on board and destroying the submarine when it could not be removed from the reef, the only international submarine-to-submarine rescue in history. [39] Corvina was the only U.S. submarine sunk by a Japanese submarine during the Second World War.
She was taken out of service in April 1931 because her displacement exceeded the limits for submarine displacement in the London Naval Treaty of 1930, and broken up shortly afterwards. She was the last steam-powered submarine built anywhere in the world until the first nuclear powered submarine, USS Nautilus was launched in 1954.
The Bathysphere on display at the National Geographic museum in 2009. The Bathysphere (from Ancient Greek βαθύς (bathús) 'deep' and σφαῖρα (sphaîra) 'sphere') was a unique spherical deep-sea submersible which was unpowered and lowered into the ocean on a cable, and was used to conduct a series of dives off the coast of Bermuda from 1930 to 1934.