[mylife]

death from below bitches!

[SamAdams76]

Submarines have come a long way since 245 years ago today.

[Tennessee Nana]

PING

[Fido969]

Lee had almost secured the bomb when his boring tools failed to penetrate a layer of iron sheathing.

[Seruzawa]

[EEGator]

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

“Lee had almost secured the bomb when his boring tools failed to penetrate a layer of iron sheathing.”

So it can be said that his mission wasn’t boring.

[Magnatron]

The show Turn has a great episode where this device was used. Neat to see what it would have looked like in practice...

[ctdonath2]

Right to keep and bear submarines then, given Progressives’ argument that only weapons of the time are covered.

[Daffynition]

'Turtle' Submarine at Connecticut River Museum

**The Connecticut River Museum has both a cut away display that you can sit in and feel what it was actually like to be inside the Turtle and a full scale replica that was hand made for the 1976 bicentennial. They tested the machine in a nearby harbor, and it is said to have worked beautifully.**

[blueunicorn6]

I bought one of those submarines they advertised in the back of comic books.

I took it out to the ocean and launched it.

I took it down 300 feet, but the pressure got to be too much on the cardboard.

Luckily, the nuclear reactor held up and I got back to port.

[rlmorel]

Hahahahahahaha!!!!

[taxcontrol]

I always thought that the direct attachment of bombs was not a good idea for the tech of the time. I believe that a rope tie to the rudder would have been more achievable.

[Batman11]

PFL

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Recessional of the Sons of the American Revolution:

“Until we meet again, let us remember our obligations to our
forefathers who gave us our Constitution, the Bill of Rights,
an independent Supreme Court and a nation of free men.”

Dr. Benjamin Franklin, when asked if we had a republic or a monarchy, replied "A Republic, if you can keep it."
Were we ever as close to losing it as we are now?

[Richard Axtell]

“Run Silent, Run Deep”, was great to see again. I watched it the first time since the early 60’s recently. Has anyone made a film, TV movie, or documentary about the “Turtle”?

I remember seeing a TV movie about the “Hunley” which was found a few years ago in Mobile Bay, another American, albeit Confederate, innovation in submarine warfare. All very interesting.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

There is another movie about a submarine in the war of 1812.

MUTINY(1952)
IMDB
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044936/

“During the War of 1812, in 1814 precisely, Silas Halsey lost his life whilst using a submarine in an unsuccessful attack on a British warship stationed in New London harbor. This is the only recorded use of one during that conflict.”