Submarine warfare, past, present and future (1902)
Fyfe, Herbert C, Reed, Edward J. (Edward James), Sir, 1830-1906 · London : Grant Richards · leaf 241
utenant Hobson, during the Spanish-American war, offered to sink the Mervimac at theentrance of Santiago harbour, half the Americansailors were wild to join in the hazardous task, andif volunteers for submarines had been requested itis certain that men would have come forward in1898 as they did so… … THE SINKING OF THE HOUSATONIC. boat, a purpose for which she was never designed,and for which, as we have seen, she proved dangerousand inefficient. As some one has observed, she wasintended for submerging at pleasure—her ownpleasure, however, not that of her crew. Duringthe attack on the…
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