Submersible Collection

How submarines fire torpedoes, 1939
Drawing to explain how a British submarines twelve torpedoes are fired. Here six torpoedoes are shown in their tubes, and a further six are in storage and have, when required

Bushnells Submarine
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 !

X Craft - British Midget Submarine - HMS Excelsior
The Interior of an X Craft - British Midget Submarine HMS Excelsior. Date: 1945

HMS D2 - D-class submarine
HMS D2 - one of eight D-class submarine built for the Royal Navy, launched in 1910. The D-class submarines were designed as improved and enlarged versions of the preceding C class

HMS E4 - British E class submarine built by Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness - commissioned on 28 January 1913. On 24 September 1915 E4 was attacked by the German airship SL3

HMS Submarine - No. 1 - First Royal Navy Sub
Holland 1 (or HM submarine Torpedo Boat No. 1) - First Royal Navy Sub - commissioned in 1901, lost in 1913 - raised/recovered in 1982

World War II launch of a new British submarine
World War II vintage photograph - launch of a new British submarine in a UK shipyard

WW II German Uboat surrender Loch Eriboll, Scotland
World War II vintage photograph - German Uboat surrender Loch Eriboll, Scotland

Italy. Milan. National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo Da Vinci. Enrico Toti submarine. Used during the Cold War

Isaac Peral (1852-1895). Spanish engineer, sailor and designer of the Peral Submarine. Partial tests verified the Peral submarine in the dock of Arsenal de la Carraca, 1889. Cadiz. Andalusia. Spain

The dock for the icebreakers, Lake Baikal
The floating, semi-submersible dock that was used for servicing the Baikal and Angara. Date: circa 1905

Patent Office Curiosities and Ingenuities
Some Curiosities and Ingenuities of the Patent Office! These include a popelling device, a helmet-mounted gun, a submersible lifesaving apparatus, a cool pipe

German submarines getting supplies
An illustration by H. W. Koekkoek to suggest how German submarines re-fuelled. With increased activity by German submarines, there was some speculation about this matter

Curiosities and ingenuities from the Patent Office; A marine
A sketch showing an example of a curious design sent to the Patent Office in 1920, of a marine life saving apparatus which was also submersible

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 !

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