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  Nautilus (1800 submarine) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nautilus was the first practical submarine, commissioned by First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte and designed by the American inventor Robert Fulton, then living in the French First Republic.
Launched in 1800, it was made of copper sheets over iron ribs, 6.5 m long with a conning tower for observation.
Nautilus was tested in France in 1800–1801, when Fulton and three mechanics descended to a depth of 8 m using ballast tanks.
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 Informat.io on Submarine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Military submarines are generally divided into attack submarines, designed to operate against enemy ships, including other submarines, in a hunter-killer role, or strategic ballistic-missile submarines, designed to launch attacks on land-based targets from a position of stealth, also known as "boomers" in the United States Navy or "bombers" in the Royal Navy.
Submarines designed for the purpose of attacking merchant ships or other warships are known as "fast attacks", "hunter-killers", "fast boats", or "fleet submarines" (which terms are not synonyms; each is a different design for a different mission).
Submarines did not have a major impact on the outcome of the war, but did portend their coming importance to naval warfare and increased interest in their use in naval warfare.
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 Submarine - ExampleProblems.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Submarines are also used for marine and freshwater science and for work at depths too great for human divers.
Submarines at periscope depth in clear water during the daytime are more easily detectable by aircraft that are directly overhead.
The submarine and her plane could then act as a reconnaisance unit ahead of the fleet, an essential role at a time when radar still did not exist.
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 Submarine History 1580-1869: timeline of submarine development
After protracted delays and several changes in government, Fulton was encouraged enough to build the submarine he called "Nautilus." He made a number of successful dives, to depths of 25 feet and for times as long as six hours (ventilation provided by a tube to the surface).
"Nautilus" was essentially an elongated "Turtle" with a larger propellor and mast and sail for use on the surface.
This submarine sank in rough weather in Mobile Bay; the crew was rescued.
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 Financial Library - Submarine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Submarines, first widely used in World War I, are used by all major navies today, especially the American, Russian and British navies.
The first mechanically driven submarine was the 1863 French Plongeur, which used compressed air for propulsion, but anaerobic propulsion was first employed by the Spanish Ictineo II in 1864.
Midget submarines were used for sabotage and espionage, especially by the Japanese and British navies; for instance five were used by Japan in its attack on Pearl Harbor.
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 SUBMARINE FACTS
The bell, from the submarine USS RAY was purchased for the church, and was transported to Yokosuka, Japan by another submarine, the USS RONQUIL.
The submarine was not generally recognized as a legitimate instrument of warfare until the Civil War.
Submarine tenders, or 'mother ships' of the U.S. Navy usually bear the names of characters of mythology, the names of submarine inventors, or the names of persons who have made contributions to the Submarine Service.
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 Nautilus (Verne) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Nautilus was the fictional submarine featured in Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and The Mysterious Island (1874).
This led many early observers of the Nautilus to believe that the vessel was some species of whale, or perhaps a sea monster not yet known to science.
In the 1896 the pirate Ker Karraje uses an un-named submarine that acts both as a tug to his schooner "Ebba", and for ramming and destroying ships which are the targets of his piracy.
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 Nautilus (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The chambered nautilus is a cephalopod with a many-chambered, spiral shell.
Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability, a public policy think-tank addressing security and sustainability issues
Nautilus Institute, a research-based initiative of Nautilus, Inc. providing motivation and education for lifelong health and fitness patterns
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 Submarine information information - Search.com
The largest Atlantis-class submarine of its fleet, launched in 1994, can carry 64 passengers and 3 crew (two guides and a pilot) to 150 feet (50 m) deep (this depth is set by the state) off the shores of the island of O'ahu in Hawai'i.
Where Japan had the finest submarine torpedoes of the war, the USN had perhaps the worst, the Mark 14 steam torpedo, with a Mk 6 magnetic influence exploder and a Mk 5 contact exploder, neither of which was reliable.
This audio file was created from an article revision dated 2006-01-11, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article.
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 Zulu class submarine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Soviet Navy's Project 611, also known by their NATO reporting name of Zulu-class, were designed as attack submarines, but six were converted to become the world's first ballistic missile submarines, one armed with a single F-11FM Scud missile and five others with two Scuds each.
The missiles were too long to be contained in the boat's hull, and extended into the enlarged sail.
Soviet submarine B-67 successfully launched a missile on 16 September 1955.
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 Fulton's Submarine (Reason): American Treasures of the Library of Congress
Testing of this craft, the Nautilus, was successfully carried out in France in 1800-1801, when Fulton and three mechanics descended to a depth of 25 feet.
This bound manuscript provides explanatory text for Fulton's illustrations of the construction and propulsion of the submarine.
In 1807 the famous Clermont, Fulton's first commercially viable steamship, sailed from New York to Albany, and proved to a nation of farmers and craftsmen that the U.S. could compete technologically with Europe.
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