Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 263
ms of an adversarys war-galleys, in orderto sink them, and drown or capture their row-ers and fighting men. The diving warrior and his box did not out-last the great galleys they had tried to sink,and the history of these boats passes over twothousand years to the American captain Bush-nell, of the… … THE BUSHNELL TORPEDO-BOAT. on the surface, enabling it at night to getits intended victim without detection,the hatch was closed, shutting in airenough to last half an hour, and byletting in a little water and turning anupright screw-bladed oar, the boat wassunk to near the keel-level of the…
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