The submarine in war and peace; its developments and its possibilities (1918)
Lake, Simon, 1866-1945 · Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott company · leaf 263
eight knots. The enemy, with light, shallow-draft, high-speed picket boats, could probably make it veryunsafe for a submarine to travel any considerable distancealong the coast in the daytime, or even at night, in surfacecruising condition. As it takes considerable time to chargethe batteries to… … AN AMPHIBIOUS SUBMARINE BEING HAULED OUT OF THE WATER unless it ran a grave risk of being captured while on the sur-face. The chances are, therefore, that if we had one hundredsubmarines distributed over our Atlantic and Pacific coastlines, not over ten or a dozen of them would be able to reachthe…
Submarines (Ships)
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