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	Alligator Snapping Turtle Photo
		Alligator Snapping Turtle - The Alligator Snapping Turtle (Macroclemys temminckii) is a larger yet less aggressive relative of the common snapping turtle.
		It is characterized by a large, heavy head and a thick tail with a dorsal ridge of large scales which gives it a primitive appearance reminiscent of some of the plated dinosaurs.
		USS Alligator (1862) - The fourth USS Alligator is the first known US Navy submarine, active during the American Civil War.
	al36.montanecano.com /alligatorsnappingturtlephoto.html (621 words)

	USS Alligator (1862) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The fourth USS Alligator is the first known US Navy submarine, active during the American Civil War.
		Next, the steam tug Fred Kopp was engaged to tow the submarine to Hampton Roads, Virginia.
		Commander John Rodgers, the senior naval officer in that area, examined Alligator and reported that neither the James off Fort Darling nor the Appomattox near the bridge was deep enough to permit the submarine to submerge completely.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Alligator_(1862) (768 words)

	USS Alligator pt 2
		The USS Alligator was designed by Frenchman Brutus de Villeroi and was launched by the Union navy in 1862.
		The Alligator's inauspicious demise came on April 2, 1863, as it was being towed by the USS Sumpter from Washington, D.C., to Charleston, S.C. furious storm overtook the ships, causing one of the two "hawsers," or ropes, securing the Alligator to the Sumpter to break.
		Havens said the USS Alligator and Samuel Eakins' connection to it have always been a part of his family's lore, as has been the family's connection to noted painter Thomas Eakins.
	ncsubvets.rodent-web.com /ncsubvets_history_uss-alligator-pt2.htm (954 words)

	USS Aligator
		The USS Alligator, which was designed by a Frenchman to ferry swimmers to underwater Confederate targets, was lost on April 2, 1863, during a storm off Cape Hatteras, about 80 miles east of New Bern.
		The USS Alligator was developed and built at a time when both the U.S. and Confederate militaries were experimenting with new technologies to gain an advantage at sea.
		The Alligator was equipped with a driver-lockout chamber and primarily was designed to take a swimmer or swimmers to an underwater target, such as a ship's hull or an obstruction in a harbor.
	ncsubvets.rodent-web.com /ncsubvets_history_uss-alligator.htm (1454 words)

	Archaeology - Office of Cultural & Historical Programs
		USS Columbine is believed to have originally been the A.H. Schultz, which was built in New York in 1850 as a sidewheel tug for use in New York Harbor.
		The destruction of USS Columbine was one of the few instances in which a Union warship was destroyed by land-based forces during the Civil War in Florida.
		USS Massachusetts (BB-2), was built in Philadelphia in 1891, as one of three of Indiana-class battleships.
	dhr.dos.state.fl.us /archaeology/projects/shipwrecks/legacy/shipwreck.cfm (963 words)

	Alligator
		John Rodgers, the senior naval officer in that area, examined Alligator and reported that neither the James off Fort Darling nor the Appomattox near the bridge was deep enough to permit the submarine to submerge completely.
		Moreover, he feared that, while his theater of operation contained no targets accessible to the submarine, the Union gunboats under his command would be highly vulnerable to her attacks should Alligator fall into enemy hands.
		In August, Lt. Thomas O. Selfridge was given command of Alligator; and she was assigned a naval crew.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/a7/alligator-iv.htm (582 words)

	North Carolina Aquariums
		Alligators are at the northern extent of their range here in Dare and Tyrrell Counties.
		The USS Monitor was the Union Navy’s ironclad that fought the Battle of Hampton Roads (March 9, 1862) with the CSS Virginia (formerly call the Merrimac).
		The USS Monitor was being towed by the USS Rhode Island from Hampton Roads, VA to Beaufort, NC eventually to go on to waters off South Carolina or Georgia.
	www.ncaquariums.com /ri/rifaq.htm (965 words)

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		Its name was Alligator, and it was, in the parlance of the time, an infernal machine.
		With the ironclad gone, Alligator was to slip up the Appomattox River and destroy a railroad bridge, or sneak up the James River and remove underwater obstacles that protected Richmond from naval attack.
		Alligator’s paddles were replaced by a rear propeller to make it faster.
	www.sid-hill.com /history/gator2.htm (2508 words)

	Search Is On For Navy's 1st Sub
		Named the Alligator because of its green color and the leglike oars that initially propelled it, the vessel was launched in 1862.
		Discovery of the Alligator would undercut the claim of various Confederate historical groups that the CSS Hunley was the first working submarine with a crew.
		The Alligator was nevertheless launched May 1, 1862, at Philadelphia, where its strange appearance so frightened residents that the vessel was initially confiscated by the Philadelphia police.
	www.sname.org /newsletter/navysub.htm (755 words)

	Hunt for the USS Alligator
		Constructed in secrecy, the Alligator's cover was blown in 1861 when alert members of the Philadelphia harbor police, acting on reports from concerned citizens about unusual activities on the waterfront, seized a partially submerged "infernal machine" that had been spotted moving slowly down the Deleware River.
		After missions in the Chesapeake Bay, as the USS Alligator was being towed through the waters of the Atlantic Ocean in preparation for an attack on Charleston Harbor, it was cut loose and lost forever.
		On April 2, a fierce storm forced the crew of the USS Sumpter to cut the unmanned Alligator adrift.
	www.military.com /forums/0,15240,99223,00.html (1010 words)

	Hunt For Navy's First Submarine 'Alligator' Begins
		Alligator was heading south under tow by the USS Sumpter off the North Carolina coast when a storm struck.
		Alligator was a green, 47-foot vessel that initially was powered by oars.
		The USS Holland, dating from the turn of the 20th century, is typically credited with being the navy's first submarine.
	www.civilwarnews.com /archive/articles/gator_sub.htm (694 words)

	Model Ship: Civil war ship, ironclad, USS, CSS, Buy Sail Boats, Warships Ships, battleships, Ocean Liners, Modern Navy
		USS Cairo, a 512-ton "City" class ironclad river gunboat built at Mound City, Illinois, was commissioned in January 1862 as part of the U.S. Army's Western Gunboat Flotilla.
		On 12 December 1862, while engaged in mine clearance activities on the Yazoo River, Mississippi, Cairo was sunk by a Confederate mine (or "torpedo", as mines were then known).
		Launched in 1862 during the Civil War, Alligator was an the 47-foot long submarine that was primarily intended to counter the threat of the Confederate ironclad, the Virginia.
	www.modelshipmaster.com /products/civil_war/index.htm (1058 words)

	Mariners Weather Log Vol. 48, No. 1, April 2004
		Following its launch from a Philadelphia shipyard in 1862, Alligator was tasked with destroying bridges crossing the Appomattox River and clearing obstructions in the James River in Virginia.
		After declaring that the USS Alligator was ready for action, RADM Samuel Dupont ordered the sub to Charleston, S.C., in March 1863, to assist with the Union blockade of that strategically important city.
		While heading south along the North Carolina coast, Alligator and its tow vessel, USS Sumpter, encountered a storm so fierce that the Sumpter's crew, facing the loss of their own ship, was forced to cut the unmanned submarine loose.
	vos.noaa.gov /MWL/april_04/alligator.shtml (1142 words)

	Wavelengths: Division Helps Place USS Alligator in the History Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		This submarine, christened USS Alligator, was launched at Philadelphia on May 1, 1862, and had such advanced features as a diver lock-out chamber and an air compressor to support diver operations, electrically-detonated underwater mines, and an air purification system.
		Alligator, painted a deep emerald green, was 47 feet in length, with a 6-foot beam, and had a row of portholes along its port and starboard sides and an enclosed topside “pilot house” at the beginning of its long conical bow.
		Alligator was designed by inventor Brutus de Villeroi, a self-described genius, who nonetheless could not convince the French government of the value of his submersible invention.
	www.dt.navy.mil /wavelengths/archives/000153.html (977 words)

	CDNN :: Shipwrecks - Finding USS Alligator, the US Navy's First Submarine
		Discovery of the Alligator, a greenish, 47-foot-long iron vessel that resembled its namesake, could shed new light on Civil War naval technology, an era of rapid maritime innovation that has risen to prominence with the recent recovery of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley and the turret of the Union ironclad USS Monitor.
		The Alligator was built for the Navy in 1861 in Philadelphia by French diver and inventor Brutus de Villeroi.
		Never tested in battle, the USS Alligator might have remained a footnote to history had it not been for a chance discovery two years ago in an N.C. bookstore.
	www.cdnn.info /industry/i040809/i040809.html (448 words)

	Uss Alligator -= The discovery has aided efforts to understand what happened to the submarine. =- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		NOAA AND U.S. the CSS Hunley: the USS Alligator.
		Marine Science Investigations: Hunt for the USS Alligator is being offered as an elective course for Crittenden Middle School in Newport News, Virginia.
		The USS Alligator was a Man of War copper and bronze-fitted gunship, built in 1820...
	www.stepbystephelp.com /Uss/Uss_Alligator.html (794 words)

	USS Monitor US
		The USS Monitor took an active part in the famous battle of Hampton Roads on March 9, 1862.
		During this battle, the fight of the USS Monitor against the confederate CSS Virginia (which was a frigate sheathed in iron) remains famous.
		This ninth plate case made of brown thermoplastic depicts the USS Monitor living the pier, the stars and stripes fluttering bravely from a pole on her deck.
	www.vieilalbum.com /MonitorUS.htm (263 words)

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		Exiting the boat, the diver could attach mines to a target, return to the boat, and detonate the mines by connecting an insulated copper wire from the mines to a battery in the vessel.
		Alligator could be used to attack the blockading fleet and there would be little that the Union vessels could do to defend themselves.
		While finding Alligator would be interesting from an historical perspective, there are also compelling reasons to develop the technology to locate something so small in such deep waters.
	www.navyandmarine.org /alligator/story.htm (1240 words)

	Alligator: The Forgotten Torchbearer of the U.S. Submarine Force
		With the beginning of spring in 1863 came a new mission for Alligator and her crew: to clear obstacles around Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor and attack the ironclads CSS Chicora and CSS Palmetto State, which had been positioned by the Confederacy to escort supply ships into Charleston harbor and lift the blockade.
		Alligator was cut free shortly after noon on April 2nd, and as Sumpter steamed away – fighting against the storm – Alligator slipped over the horizon, never to be seen again.
		She was the first submarine ordered and built by the Navy and the first to have a diver lockout chamber, to deploy to a combat zone, to be commanded by a U.S. naval officer, and to undergo an overhaul at a U.S. naval shipyard – just to name a few.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/cno/n87/usw/issue_30/alligator2.html (1987 words)

	Baby Alligator Snapping Turtle
		Alligators, Old Mink and New Money: One Woman's Adventures in Vintage Clothing Alligators, Old Mink and New Money: One Woman's Adventures in Vintage Clothing Ecko - Ecko is a brand of urban clothing that has been popular among the subculture since the late 1990s, but has moved into the mainstream during the early...
		After it bites everyone on the nose, they return to the monstrous alligator snapping turtle, and 9 other remarkable creatures that "carry their homes on their backs." 12 sticker illustrations of subjects.
		After it bites everyone on the nose, they return to the western diamondback rattlesnake of the driest landscapes; and from baby alligator snapping turtle.
	al36.montanecano.com /babyalligatorsnappingturtle.html (971 words)

	Submarines: History - The U.S. Navy's First Submarine
		Unfortunately, neither river was deep enough to allow the Alligator to submerge and she was returned to the Washington Navy Yard.
		In 1863, after the Alligator's oar system was replaced with a screw propellor, the submarine was sent to help capture Charleston, South Carolina.
		Her current whereabouts are unknown, but an effort (launched in 2003) by the Office of Naval Research and NOAA could one day reveal the Secrets of the Alligator.
	www.onr.navy.mil /focus/blowballast/sub/history4.htm (382 words)

	USS Alligator
		The 47-foot-long Alligator was constructed of rolled iron in a shipyard in Philadelphia, where De Villeroi had immigrated, and was launched May 1, 1862, according to Christley and Michiko Martin of the Marine Sanctuary Program.
		The Alligator was not a "blue water" boat, Christley said, and was designed to operate in rivers and harbors.
		In spring 1862, the Alligator was deployed to the Hampton Roads area of Virginia to help clear enemy river obstructions and blow up an important railroad bridge.
	www.sid-hill.com /history/gator.htm (1077 words)

	Highlighted National Register Properties - Celebrate African American History Month
		Aerial view of the underwater wreckage of the USS Alligator, and a c1840 sketch of the schooner's spar and sails
		The wreck of the U.S. schooner Alligator lies near the Alligator Reef Lighthouse on the Atlantic Ocean side of the Florida Keys, Florida.
		Later, the Alligator was assigned anti-piracy patrol in the West Indies.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/feature/afam/2001/nr_properties.htm (1180 words)

	Bright Ideas Press
		It rammed the USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor Feb. 16, 1864 with a spar torpedo that was packed with explosive powder and attached to a long pole on the sub’s bow.
		USS Holland was launched October 12, 1900 and until recently was thought to be the first commissioned U.S. Navy sub.
		The search continues for the USS Alligator, now believed to be the first commissioned U.S. Navy submarine.
	www.brightideaspress.com /articles/civil_war_submarine.htm (1063 words)

	1862alligator
		If the boat was not finished and ready to be shipped aboard the USS Rhode Island in three or four days, the time for using the submarine would have passed.
		On the first of May 1862, the Submarine Propeller was launched by a crane which lowered the boat into the water of the Delaware River.
		The Alligator was the first American submarine to be owned and operated by the US Navy and was first to be assigned to a combat area.
	www.navyandmarine.org /ondeck/1862alligator.htm (3958 words)

	Navy Times - News - More News.
		The Alligator, which could carry up to 22 crew members, met a fate similar to the USS Monitor, the iron-plated gunboat that sank in a storm off Cape Hatteras in December 1862.
		Marzin said the Alligator was largely overlooked partly because it had been a secret weapon and had a short service life.
		The ship, launched from a Philadelphia shipyard in 1862, was sent to Virginia to destroy bridges over the Appomattox River and to clear obstructions in the James River.
	www.navytimes.com /story.php?f=1-292925-314129.php (427 words)

	Civil War Submarines
		Launched in 1862 during the Civil War, Alligator was an engineering marvel that helped usher in a new era in undersea travel.
		When the Alligator arrived at the James River, with civilian Samuel Eakins in charge, a fierce battle was being waged in the area.
		In August 1862, Lt. Thomas O. Selfridge accepted command of the submarine, after being promised promotion to captain if he and the Alligator 's new crew destroyed the new Confederate ironclad, the Virginia II During test runs in the Potomac, the Alligator proved to be underpowered and unwieldy.
	americancivilwar.com /tcwn/civil_war/naval_submarine.html (1569 words)

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