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Hand-cranked Submarine (other)
Hand-cranked submarine may refer to: * * '' American Diver'' * Bayou St. John submarine * '' H. L. Hunley (submarine)'' * '' Intelligent Whale'' * ''Nautilus'' (1800 submarine) * ''Pioneer'' (submarine) *''Sub Marine Explorer ''Sub Marine Explorer'' is a submersible built between 1863 and 1866 by Julius H. Kroehl and Ariel Patterson in Brooklyn, New York for the Pacific Pearl Company. It was hand powered and had an interconnected system of a high-pressure air ch ...'' * ''Turtle'' (submersible) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Diver
''American Diver'', also known as the ''Pioneer II'', was a prototype submarine built for the Confederate States of America military. It was the first successor to the '' Pioneer''. The ''Diver'' was invented and built by the same consortium that built the ''Pioneer'' in New Orleans. It was composed of Horace Lawson Hunley, James McClintock, and Baxter Watson. They were forced to move their operations to Mobile, Alabama, following the capture of New Orleans by Union forces in April 1862. Although ultimately unsuccessful, it served as a model in the development of the consortium's next submarine, the '' H. L. Hunley''. The ''Hunley'' eventually became the first combat submarine to sink an enemy warship. History The ''Diver'' was designed and built by the consortium in late 1862. Over the course of several months many costly attempts were made to propel the submarine with some type of electrical motor and then a steam engine, but both methods proved to be failures. The ste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bayou St
In usage in the Southern United States, a bayou () is a body of water typically found in a flat, low-lying area. It may refer to an extremely slow-moving stream, river (often with a poorly defined shoreline), marshy lake, wetland, or creek. They typically contain brackish water highly conducive to fish life and plankton. Bayous are commonly found in the Gulf Coast region of the southern United States, especially in the Mississippi River Delta, though they also exist elsewhere. A bayou is often an anabranch or minor braid of a braided channel that is slower than the mainstem, often becoming boggy and stagnant. Though fauna varies by region, many bayous are home to crawfish, certain species of shrimp, other shellfish, and leeches, catfish, frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, American alligators, turtles, and snakes such as watersnakes, swampsnakes, mudsnakes, crayfish snakes, and cottonmouths. Common birds include anhingas, egrets, herons, spoonbills, as well as many other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intelligent Whale
''Intelligent Whale'' is an experimental hand-cranked submarine developed for potential use by the United States Navy in the 1860s. History ''Intelligent Whale'' was built on the design of Scovel Sturgis Merriam in 1863 by Augustus Price and Cornelius Scranton Bushnell. In 1864 the American Submarine Company was formed, taking over the interests of Bushnell and Price and there followed years of litigation over the ownership of the craft. ''Intelligent Whale'' was completed and launched in 1866. When title was established by a court the submarine was sold on 29 October 1869 through a contract made by owner Oliver Halstead and Secretary of the Navy George M. Robeson to the United States Navy Department, with most of the price to be paid after successful trials. In September 1872 the first trial was held and was unsuccessful, whereupon the department refused further payments and abandoned the project. ''Intelligent Whale'' submerged by filling water compartments, and expell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nautilus (1800 Submarine)
''Nautilus'' was a submarine designed by Robert Fulton and first tested in 1800. Though preceded by Cornelis Drebbel#Submarine, Cornelis Drebbel's vessel of 1620 and the ''Turtle (submersible), Turtle'', ''Nautilus'' is often considered to be the first practical submarine. Background ''Nautilus'' was designed between 1793 and 1797 by the American inventor Robert Fulton, then living in the French First Republic. He unsuccessfully proposed to French Directory, the Directory that they subsidize its construction as a means to ensure French naval dominance. His second, also unsuccessful, proposal to them was that he be paid nothing until ''Nautilus'' had actually sunk merchant shipping, and then only a small percentage of the prize money. Fulton directed his next proposal to the Minister of Marine, who granted him permission to build. Construction Fulton built the first ''Nautilus'' of copper sheets over iron ribs at the Perrier boatyard in Rouen. It was long and in the beam. P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pioneer (submarine)
''Pioneer'' was the first of three submarines privately developed and paid for by Horace Lawson Hunley, James McClintock, and Baxter Watson. While the United States Navy was constructing its first submarine, USS ''Alligator'', during the American Civil War in late 1861, the Confederates were doing so as well. Horace L. Hunley, James McClintock, and Baxter Watson built ''Pioneer'' in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was the first of three submarines financially backed by Hunley (Pioneer, Pioneer II, and Hunley). The Pioneer was thirty feet long and four feet in diameter. The crew consisted of a pilot and one man to rotate the propeller manually. It was equipped with an explosive that would be attached to the hull of an enemy vessel and blown up using a clockwork mechanism. ''Pioneer'' was tested in February 1862 in the Mississippi River, and later was towed to Lake Pontchartrain for additional trials where it successfully managed to sink a schooner, but the Union advance toward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sub Marine Explorer
''Sub Marine Explorer'' is a submersible built between 1863 and 1866 by Julius H. Kroehl and Ariel Patterson in Brooklyn, New York for the Pacific Pearl Company. It was hand powered and had an interconnected system of a high-pressure air chamber or compartment, a pressurized working chamber for the crew, and water ballast tanks. Problems with decompression sickness and overfishing of the pearl beds led to the abandonment of ''Sub Marine Explorer'' in Panama in 1869 despite publicized plans to shift the craft to the pearl beds of Baja California. Construction ''Sub Marine Explorer'' had an external high air pressure chamber which was filled with compressed air at a pressure of up to by a steam pump mounted on an external support vessel. Water ballast tanks were flooded to make the vessel submerge. Pressurized air was then released into the vessel to build up enough pressure so it would be possible to open two hatches on the underside, while keeping water out. This meant t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
