It was a Confederate submersible boat, only fifty feet long and nine feet in diameter, carrying a fifteen-foot spar-torpedo.
Her commander, Lieutenant Dixon, was ordered to make an attack against the Federal fleet immediately, using, however, the boat as a submersible instead of a submarine.
The disposition of Mike Murphy's forces was such that the chances of the enemy detecting the substitution of the boarding party before it should reach the submersible were reduced to a minimum.
The submersible craft began to appear on all the coasts of the British Isles.
Rousseau, however, is that the type of the submersible is perfectible, and that the difficulties will be overcome.
Rousseau, the inventor of the submarine warship says that the advantage of the submersible system would be incontestable, but that certain problems have arisen of which the solution has not been altogether realized.
The construction of submersible vessels is going on under Admiralty supervision and protection, a matter carefully arranged by your lover, Ruxton Farlow.
You see, I knew what your father's submersible meant to Germany.
With the submersible how is it possible to prevent imports to a country which possesses a seaboard?
Nor was it till he spoke of the futility of a war submarine's efforts against his submersible did any note of passion and triumph find its way into the man's manner.
Your father is at Dorby, and his private submersible is moored in an inner dock at Farlow, Son and Farlow's yards.
The moment a submarine appears, the submersible submerges and the enemy is helpless.
I please to call my invention a submersible merchantman.
The man was completely changed from the simple inventor who had told the story of his submersible to Sir Andrew Farlow and his son.
The submersible had slipped out of port under cover of darkness, and from that moment, until its arrival at Gravesend, the seas had been scoured vainly for so much as a sight of it.
He had heard no word from her, he had caught no glimpse of her since he had watched her finally ascend the companionway of the submersible to return to the shore.
The submersiblewill be standing off to pick us up.
He recognized it at once as of the submersible pattern of the vessel he had arrived at Borga in.
Then the complete ringing round of these islands, and a naval warfare against us with this new type of battle-ship, the submersible dreadnought.
But by the time that he judged himself to be going over the recently observed position of the submersible the searchlight revealed no bubbles.
Most of the payments on the submersible had already been made.
These gasoline engines are used at the same time for charging the storage batteries; so that the submersible is a much more practical boat than the submarine, and at the same time is quite as good a diver.
He said that in rising to the surface to find out the state of things there the submersible came up directly under the barge, canting it in such a way that I was rolled out and he caught me as I was swept close to the opening.
De Beauxchamps removed his cap, and one or two bared heads could be seen peering out of the interior of the submersible below him.
It was evident that the object under his feet must be a submersible vessel of some kind, although it was of a type which Captain Arms, standing beside Cosmo on the bridge, declared that he had never set eyes on before.
A submersible would not have been capacious enough for the party I wanted to take.
The submersible was gone so long that the anxiety of those aboard the Ark deepened into alarm, and finally became almost panic.
After a long time, during which Cosmo succeeded in allaying the fears of his passengers, the submersible reappeared, and De Beauxchamps made his report.
Within two days, but without the knowledge of the public, the keel of the submersible Jules Verne was laid.
A third crash came over their heads, and the submersible seemed to sink beneath them as if seeking to avoid the fearful blows that were rained upon its roof.
We were unmanned, and I hardly had nerve enough to turn the submersible away and hurry from the neighborhood.
Cosmo wished to get a close look at it, and they ran the submersibleinto actual contact with the forepart of the gigantic statue, just under the mighty chin.
The submersible must be lost," he said quietly, "but the men have escaped, so there is no great harm done.
As we approached the site of the city I sank the submersible until we almost touched the higher hills.
Cosmo Versál descended into the submersible after instructing Captain Arms to hover in the neighborhood.
But the German submersible swerved just a trifle and the torpedo missed by a narrow margin.
Instruct all your officers under no circumstances to fire at the first submersible to move up the river.
Tilting fore and aft like a rocking horse, thesubmersible responded gradually to the lightening process until at last the depth dial showed only a margin of several feet needed to lift the eyes of the periscopes above the waves.
The little submersibleseemed torn by an internal explosion.
London papers, brought on board while the Yankee submersible rested in the English naval station at Chatham, told of a daring raid by German light cruisers on the east coast of England only the night before.
After traveling ahead for half a mile thesubmersible was stopped again and began slowly to ascend.
The little submersible was caught in the convulsion of the sea until it seemed her seams would be rent and her crew engulfed.
Turning over on his back and paddling thus until he floated, the boy remembered gain the submersible and the fearful mine explosion that had cast him into the sea.
Here is our answer," exclaimed McClure, and catching the big submersible full on the sight of the periscope glass, he released a torpedo.
The shifted cargo of humans and equipment made no difference; the submersible remained fast.
The divers reported the wreckage of a large vessel, evidently one of a new class of submersible cruisers of at least 4000 tons displacement.
He had been awakened by hearing the first shot fired by the submersible against his steamer.
Then he thought he recognized on the submersible two of the sailors of the crew of the schooner who, after being received with shouts and embraces by their comrades, disappeared through a tubular hatchway.
A submersible had just appeared a short distance from the Californian and had fired several shells at it.
He wished this so that he could send his vessel upon the submersible at full speed, daring it to come on.
The submersible upon augmenting its volume by emersion appeared, nevertheless, to be falling behind on the horizon.
There was no fight after that, the submersible sinking before any of the crew could get clear to save themselves.
Airship and destroyer combined have an advantage that puts the submersible on the run or out of commission altogether.
Darrin did not turn to see what had become of the submersible at which one of the "Logan's" shells had been fired.
It must be that lookout's business to try to judge the distance of the destroyer, that the submersible might remain on the surface long enough to wreak all possible havoc on the lifeboats.
There the long, vague outline of a submersible was barely discernible under the deep blue of the sea.
The maneuver brought the tramp around so that the starboard battery could now be trained on the submersible to the southward.
That they can see a submersible at such a depth makes me wonder why the hydroairplane doesn't take the place of the destroyer," observed Lieutenant Curtin.
The submersible had already sunk from sight, leaving but few of her men struggling on the surface of the water.
As though to keep the submersiblemocking company, the "Griswold" gave a final lurch, then settled quietly under the waves despite the immensity of her hull.
Two days later a Russian destroyer, the Strogi, rammed and sunk an enemy submersible near the spot where the hospital ship Portugal was torpedoed.
To them can now be added the achievements of the submersible Deutschland, by means of which we have begun to resume our trade relations with the United States despite the so-called British blockade.
It was during this period that they sent the first submersible merchant ship across the Atlantic and gave further proof of having developed undersea craft to an amazing state of efficiency.
The submersible was said to be of the newest and largest type and sixty men were believed to have been lost with her.
There it is, floating alongside--a submersible boat, a submarine tug, worked by a screw set in motion by the current from a battery of accumulators or powerful electric piles.
The Sword was a submersible boat of only twelve tons, and consequently much inferior to the tug, both in respect of dimensions and power.
The shape of the Holland submarine makes it a good undersea boat; the Lake submersible has a large deck and roomy quarters, and its shape makes it good for surface going.
Cornelius van Drebbel, an ingenious Dutchman who settled in England before 1600, produced certain submersible vessels and obtained for them the patronage of two kings.
Another submersible of somewhat different design is the production of the Swedish inventor, Mr. Nordenfelt.
The vessels hitherto described should be termed submersiblerather than submarine, as they are designed to usually proceed on the surface, and submerge themselves only for action when in sight of the enemy.
In 1896 a competition was held and won by the submersible Narval of M.
Of course, the ship and the submersible might not meet at all.
I am quite sure the commander of the submersible will not take you aboard his craft; so I fear you are apt to remain with us.
He admitted to her that thus far Krueger had not been able to pick up any word from the submersible that had been engaged to meet the pirates if they accomplished their part of the plot--which they had.
The submersible must be driven below the surface by a superiority of gunfire on the part of the merchant marine and its patrols.
Moreover, the hull of the submersible has been modified so that the propellers are almost entirely shielded and incased in such a way that they will not foul the lines of a net.
Again, the speed which the electrical propulsion system gives the vessel on the surface greatly increases the pressure which the diving rudders can exert in forcing the submersible under water.
If the submersible were capable of dealing directly with the destroyer in gun-fighting, a tremendous revolution would take place in the tactics of "submarine swatting.
Under these conditions the submersible commander is more or less forced to a policy of lying ambushed to surprise his enemy.
Towing torpedoes or high explosive charges behind moving vessels has been developed by the Italian Navy, but the chances of hitting a submersible with such devices are not very great.
It is easy to understand why the submersible did not take a vital part in any of the major naval actions.
One of the great problems of the submersible has been to master the difficulties of its control while maintaining a desired depth.
Then it would be difficult to see how the submersible could be dealt with.
The third method by which to frustrate the attack of the submersible is to give better protection to the merchant marine itself.
There is a constant evolution in the position of the ships which it is impossible to follow from the low point of vantage of a periscope, for the different formations of ships mean nothing to the submersible commander.
There has also been a steel hawser strung from the bow across the highest point of the vessel to the stern, so that the submersiblecan underrun a net without entangling the superstructure.
Whether the German U-boat campaign succeeds or not will be largely a question of the number of submersibles that the Central Powers can put into service, and to what extent the submersible will be developed during the present war.
In view of these facts, it is not surprising that the submersibleshould not have been able to sweep the capital ship from the seas, as was predicted by certain experts before the war.
Holland and Lake may be looked upon as the parents of the modern development of the submersible boat, their designs being at the base of the great European progress.
When an engine arrives which can propel a boat under water by abstracting the necessary oxygen from the surrounding sea, we will have made the submersible a commercial proposition.
During the war the High Sea Fleet was seldom seen by any ships, submersible or otherwise, but "E 23" (Lieut.
The first successful submarine attack, it should be noted, was by the Confederate submersible which sank the Housatonic in the American Civil War--some fifty-seven years ago.
A properly streamlined body moves faster under than on the surface of water, and with a submersible internal combustion engine there would be in all probability a doubling of the speed of ships.
It was not an American submarine; it was a German submersible and that schooner was sent to the bottom, followed by other wind-jammers and the Porto Rico liner Carolina.
To be more explicit, a submersible has a mechanical process, a combination motor and dynamo between the engine, which drives the boat when it is on the surface, and the thrust block through which the shaft runs to the propeller.
The British have a type of submersible propelled on the surface by steam.
The amount of time which a submersible may run beneath the waves depends upon her speed.
There is a station for them in Newport Harbor, and submersible boats of our navy are to be found there at all times.
Lines were thrown aboard the submersible and were made fast; but the U-boat, either stricken mortally or scuttled by her crew, began to settle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "submersible" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cruiser; sub; submarine; vessel
