![]() ![]() Dollar for dollar and man for man, the submarine is the country's most economical weapon. ![]() The first President to cruise aboard a nuclear submarine was President Eisenhower who rode the USS SEAWOLF out of Newport, Rhode Island on September 26, 1957. As a result of a trip in an early United States submarine, President "Teddy" Roosevelt ordered extra compensation for personnel serving in the "Silent Service." President Harry Truman made a 440 foot dive in a captured German submarine. The King of England and the King and Queen of Spain are among those who have made submerged cruises in submarines. Interests in submarines extends to royalty and presidents.Herodotus (460 B.C.), Aristotle (332 B.C.) and Pliny, the elder, (77 A.D.) mention determined attempts to build submersibles. Records of attempts to utilize submarine warfare go back to the earliest writings in history.Over three hundred years ago, Mother Shipton, famous English prophetess, predicted the coming of the submarine when writing, "under water men shall walk, shall ride, shall sleep, shall talk.".Alexander the Great (356 to 323 B.C.) ruler of Macedonian and conqueror of the known world in his time, is the first person known to have descended into the sea in a vessel of any kind.Van Drebbel is said to have developed a chemical which would purify the air and allow the crew to stay submerged for extended periods. The first boat known to have been navigated under water was built in 1620 by a Dutchman, Cornelius Van Drebbel.Today's nuclear powered submarines cost in excess of $30,000,000 exclusive of the power plant. The Holland was accepted on Apfor a price of $150,000. John Philip Holland built several submarines before the USS Holland, which became the first undersea craft commissioned by the U.S.The crew members’ skeletal remains were found at their stations and their bodies had no obvious physical injuries. ![]() “I don’t know if he could see it, I don’t know if he could hear it,” he said. There also would have been a fair amount of noise from the ocean around them. If the candle went out, or was lost, they would have been working in the dark. On the night of the attack, Scarfuri said that the captain’s single candle would have been the only light in the cramped, 25-foot long crew area. “They weren’t trying to escape or taking other actions to save the sub,” Scafuri said. The hole was small enough that a crew member could have stuffed something in it to slow the flow of water, or pumped the water, but that doesn’t seem to have happened. It would have only taken minutes for that much water to flow in through the hole. Researchers at the University of Michigan found it would have only taken 50-75 gallons of water to drag the Hunley to the ocean floor, according to a news release from the Friends of the Hunley organization. Solving the mystery of what killed a Civil War submarine crew Courtesy Friends of the Hunley/Courtesy Friends of the Hunley/Courtesy Friends of the Hunley Researchers in a North Charleston, South Carolina, laboratory on Wednesday Junveiled the crew compartment - which had been sealed by more than 130 years of ocean exposure and encrusted sediment. Hunley mystery are being revealed during conservation of the American Civil War submarine. There was a 1-inch gap where the pipe was supposed to mount to the side wall. The pipe carried water to a ballast tank that helped the sub submerge and surface. They found the broken intake pipe at the front of the Hunley while cleaning away the thick, rock-hard coating of sand, shells, sea life and other materials – known as concretion – that built up on it over time. Since then, conservators and archaeologists have been working to preserve the vessel and study its contents in hopes of finally figuring out what happened. The sub was raised and taken to a laboratory in North Charleston in 2000. More than 130 years later the Hunley was discovered on the ocean floor. The Confederate vessel disappeared with all its eight crew members. Hunley became the first submarine to successfully attack an enemy ship in combat when it sank the wooden ship USS Housatonic on February 17, 1864. A broken pipe may help explain why a famous Civil War submarine sank off of Charleston, South Carolina, more than 150 years ago. ![]()
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