The submarine in war and peace; its developments and its possibilities (1918)
Lake, Simon, 1866-1945 · Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott company · leaf 226
practicable, and I succeeded inraising sufficient capital to build a larger vessel to continuemy experiments on a broader scale. Therefore, in 1895, Idesigned the Argonaut. At this time I was living in Baltimore, Md., so I madea contract with the Columbian Iron Works and Dry DockCompany, of that… … argonaut as originally built, launched in august, 1897 Built to further demonstrate the possibility of navigation over the waterbed of seas orthe ocean. She covered thousands of miles in ner experimental work, testing out the prac-ticability of the submarine for various kinas of commercial work.…
Submarines (Ships)
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