Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 447
will not disturb the valve thatcontrols its horizontal rudder. But these motor-boats, or chasers, as they are called, are of sucha shallow draft that a torpedo would pass harm-lessly under them, and then they are so speedythat a submarine would have little chance of hit-ting them, anyway. It used… … ALLIED BATTLESHIP IN THE DARDANELLES, WITH PROTECTIVE CAMOUFLAGE it would have to come up now and then to getits bearings, particularly when operating in aharbor or near the coast, where it might run intoa rock or a shoal. At that time submarines wererather fragile boats and their skin was liable…
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