The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 59
gongthat clamors high above the racket of the en-gines, and is most likely to come when youleast expect it and while the boat is proceedingon the surface, hatches, ventilators, and conning-tower wide open. Within two and one half min-utes of the sounding of that signal, the boat issupposed to have… … A SUBMARINE ON THE SURFACE, AT CRUISING SPEED. with electricity. Men are everywhere, each run- the sinking proceeds, if you look at the port-ning to his post. The engines cease to revolve, holes, you can see as the level of the waterThe engineers sever the couplings between the reaches the glass…
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