Submarine Warfare
by Herbert C. Fyfe
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About this eBook
- Author
- Fyfe, Herbert C.
- Title
- Submarine Warfare, Past, Present, and Future
- Credits
- Produced by Richard Tonsing, Chris Curnow, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- VM: Naval science: Naval architecture, Shipbuilding, Marine engineering
- Subject
- Submarine warfare
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 62908
- Release Date
- August 12, 2020
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.SUBMARINE WARFARE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.INTRODUCTION
- 4.THE PROBABLE FUTURE OF SUBMARINE BOAT CONSTRUCTION.
- 5.CONTENTS
- 6.ILLUSTRATIONS
- 7.PART I — CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY — CHAPTER II THE PLACE OF THE SUBMARINE IN WARFARE — CHAPTER III THE MORALITY OF SUBMARINE WARFARE — CHAPTER IV THE MECHANISM OF THE SUBMARINE, AND SUBMARINES OF THE FUTURE — 1. Submarines with no Floatability when Submerged. — 2. Submarines Possessing Floatability when submerged. — Immersion by Screws Mounted on a vertical Shaft. — Immersion by Horizontal Rudders. — Motive Power. — Propulsion of the Surface. — Armament. — Safety and Habitability. — Vision When Submerged. — CHAPTER V THE ROMANCE OF UNDER-WATER WARFARE — CHAPTER VI THE MORAL INFLUENCE OF UNDER-WATER WARFARE — CHAPTER VII THE SUBMARINE IN ACTION — French Submarines. — CHAPTER VIII THE ANTIDOTE TO SUBMARINES
- 8.PART II — CHAPTER IX THE EARLY HISTORY OF SUBMARINE WARFARE — CHAPTER X EARLY EFFORTS IN SUBMARINE NAVIGATION — CHAPTER XI DAVID BUSHNELL — Description of a Magazine and its Appendages designed to be conveyed by the Submarine Vessel to the bottom of a Ship. — Experiments made to prove the nature and use of a Submarine Vessel. — CHAPTER XII FULTON’S SUBMARINE BOATS — CHAPTER XIII SUBMARINES DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR — CHAPTER XIV THE WHITEHEAD TORPEDO—“THE MOST WONDERFUL MACHINE IN THE WORLD” — 1 and 2. The Firing Arrangement and Explosive Chamber. — 3. The Air Chamber. — 4. The Balance Chamber. — 5. The Engine Room. — The Servo-Motor. — 6. The Buoyancy Chamber. — The Gyroscope. — CHAPTER XV THE NORDENFELT SUBMARINES
- 9.PART III — APPENDIX I BRITISH SUBMARINES — APPENDIX II THE AMERICAN SUBMARINES — APPENDIX III FRANCE AND HER SUBMARINES — PART I. French Submarines Proper, i.e. those Dependent entirely on Electricity for Motive Power. — PART II. French “Submersibles,” i.e. , those Fitted with Two Sources of Motive Power, One for Surface, and One for Sub-surface Propulsion. — The New Submarines. — APPENDIX IV SUBMARINES OLD AND NEW — APPENDIX V THE “LAKE” SUBMARINES — A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SUBMARINE WARFARE — France. — Belgium. — Germany. — Great Britain. — United States.
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