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To: Smokin' Joe
Revolutionary War- David Bushnell'd Turtle.

Robert Fulton's Nautilus cut-away full size


40 posted on 01/25/2016 3:39:54 PM PST by Covenantor (Men are ruled..e.by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern - Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor
Interesting to learn of Fulton's Nautilus.

While it appears to be a design which had potential, it was never used in combat. That might have made the French the first to sink an enemy ship with a submarine had that been the case.

41 posted on 01/25/2016 5:58:43 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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