Submarine Collection (#12)

The E9s commander
Photograph of Commander Max K. Horton, the submarine officer who torpedoed three German war-ships, the Pommern, the Hela and S.116

German shop wrecked in Liverpool
A German shop wrecked by a crowd in Liverpool following the sinking of the Lusitania by German submarine. Liverpudlians formed a large part of the Lusitanias crew

British mine washed up on the beach
A washed-up submarine mine, probably from the British navy, guarded by two German soldiers at Ostend in Belgium

The Hesperian
The liner, Hesperian sunk by a German submarine off the Irish south coast on September 4th 1915 on a voyage from Liverpool to Montreal

Orfordness Lighthouse and Telegraph Station, 1853
Engraving of Orfordness lighthouse and Submarine electric telegraph station, Suffolk, June 1853. At the end of May 1853 a telegraph cable 119 miles had been laid between Orfordness and Scheveningen

Unsere Helden
A commemorative photograph of the crew of the U9, a German submarine claiming to have sunk three British cruisers in 1914. With the news, the men became heroes of the Fatherland

Survivors in a Lifeboat, 1918
Photograph showing the survivors of a passenger ship, sunk by German submarine action, adrift at sea in a small lifeboat during the First World War

British Submarine E8
British submarine E8, a sister vessel of the E9 which torpedoed the German cruiser Hela off Heligoland Date: 1914

Submarine Launching
Launching a Submarine

Submarine Colonies
When our planets surface gets overcrowded, we can build under water colonies - colonise the ocean floor : New empires may spring up on the ocean floor, perhaps rivaling even

Republican Submarine B. 6 sinking off Corunna; Spanish Civi
Photograph showing the Republican Governments submarine B.6 sinking, viewed from the deck of the Nationalist cruiser Velasco, off Corunna, 10th September 1936

Curiosities and ingenuities from the Patent Office; Curious
Sketch of a cross section of a curious apparatus for securing oysters. Two men work in a submarine-like pod at the bottom of the sea, scooping up oysters with a rake

Birmingham Sinks U-15
The British light cruiser HMS Birmingham, commanded by Captain Arthur Duff, sinks the first German submarine of the war (the U-15)

Lusitania - Photo
The Great Cunard liner Lusitania, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine

Submarine on Surface
A submarine travelling on the surface

English Flying Machine
The sinister English flying machine menaces the French submarine : illustration to Le sous-marin Le Vengeur by Pierre Mael

Futuristic pearl fishing. Two divers have just got out of their submarine, and have found a large oyster shell containing pearls on the seabed

Confederate David Submarine
A David (as in David and Goliath) one of several used by the Confederate Navy with considerable success against Federal warships. (Note, This is not Hunleys David)

Villeroi Submarine 1861
Cross-section of Villerois submarine project, constructed at Philadelphia

Villeroi Submarine
The submarine project of Villeroi, constructed at Philadelphia, might change the course of the War between the States... if it proves successful

Nordenfelts Submarine
Torsten Vilhelm Nordenfelts (1842-1920) submarine in the dock

Holland & Submarine
John Philip Holland, American inventor, looking out of his diving torpedo boat called the " Holland" after her designer

Cornelis Drebbel
CORNELIS DREBBEL Dutch physician and inventor, spent most of his life in England where he is credited with inventing the first submarine

Escaping from a Sub
Escaping from a crippled submarine is easy when you know how : you simply lift the convenient manhole cover, disregard the water pressure, and away you go !

Gustave Zede Submarine
The Gustave Zede is one of the worlds first successful submarines, performing 2500+ dives without mishap : she is the first submarine to be equipped with a periscope

British M. 1 Submarine
With its enormous forward gun and a sizeable one aft, the M.1 seems better suited to surface combat than to underwater operations

Detecting a Submarine
Thwarting a submarine attack : an array of microphones detects the approach of a hostile submarine - then the destroyers come in to the attack !

FULTONs SUBMARINE 1801
Interior of the Nautilus built by American inventor Robert Fulton in Paris for Napoleon; it is successfully tested at Brest, descending to 8 metres

Italian Sub Interior
Enemy in sight ! The commander of an Italian submarine in World War Two spots a British vessel and prepares to sink her

Sub / France / Plongeur
Le Plongeur submarine constructed by Bourgeois and Brun

Sub / France / Payerne
Pyrhydrostat - submarine by Dr Payerne

Learn from Flying Fish 2
Now that birds have taught mankind to fly, flying fish encourage him to combine the submarine and the aeroplane. Date: 1911

Learn from Flying Fish 1
If birds taught mankind to fly, what can the inventor learn from flying fish ? Combining the submarine and the aeroplane must surely be the next development

Captured U-Boat 1916
A captured German submarine minelayer is on view in the Thames, London

German Sub Exploded
A trapped German submarine is driven inshore and blown out of the water

German Submarine Wwi
12-inch gun on a minster German submarine, the kind that sunk British shipping

U-Boat Interior
The interior of a German U- Boat

Entrance to Submarine
A French submariner descends into a submarine

Lake Submarine in Action
A " Simon Lake" submarine fitted with wheels to move over the sea-bottom, passes through a harbour mine field 1 of 2

Submarine Periscope
How one sees in a submarine - the periscope chamber

Lusitania Sinks (Morell)
Torpedoed within sight of the Irish coast: a reconstruction of where and how the Cunard passenger liner was sunk by German U-boat U-20, with the loss of 1198 lives

Condor Attacks Sub 1941
Long-range Focke-Wulf 200-C Condors attack an allied convoy, guiding a U-boat towards their prey

Bushnells Sub / Section
BUSHNELLs TURTLE the first submersible craft to be used in action, attacking a British ship at New York on 7 September 1776; the one-man crew provided the power manually !

Birmingham Rams U15 1914
HMS Birmingham, commanded by Captain Arthur Duff, ramming the German submarine U15

Transport / Submarines
BORELLOs submarine project

FULTON (1765 - 1815)
ROBERT FULTON American inventor; in Paris 1797-1806 he invents a submarine but fails to interest Napoleon

Emile Aubrun spotting submarines from his aeroplane
The French aviator Emile Aubrun (1881-1967) at Cherbourg demonstrates that submarines under water can be detected from aircraft flying at a height of 500 metres

Futuristic stroll on the seabed
A futuristic stroll on the seabed, in the Sargasso forest

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