Like Other Countries Germany Did Not 



Although Bushnell and Fulton 

 had both demonstrated the 

 practicability of navigating a 

 vessel under water, Germans 

 took but little interest in the 

 subject until 1850. In that 

 year Wilhelm Bauer, whose 

 portrait appears to the right, 

 built the U-boat illustrated. 

 Bauer served as a Bavarian 

 artillery officer in the Danish 



War and had ample opportunity 

 to note the havoc wrought by 

 Danish warships on Schleswig- 

 HoUstein troops. He thought it 

 would be easy to build a sub- 

 marine boat which would destroy 

 the Danish warships. The Prus- 

 sian government was not very 

 encouraging, and so he had to 

 build his vessel with the aid 

 of private citizens 



In the oval, a squadron of German sub- 

 marines. Two types of submarines have 

 been developed, known in this country, 

 respectively as the Holland and the Lake 

 types. Americans are prone to regard 

 Holland as the pioneer submarine inventor 



The photograph to the 

 left shows the great 

 gaping hole blasted in 

 the side of an un- 

 armored ship by a 

 German torpedo. The 

 latest type of German 

 submarine carries from 

 ten to twelve tor- 

 pedoes. It is equip- 

 ped with six torpedo 

 tubes (four ahead and 

 two astern) . In the 

 nose or warhead of a 

 torpedo from five 

 hundred to seven 

 hundred pounds of gun 

 cotton are carried — a 

 high explosive of ter- 

 rific possibilities as the 

 picture convincingly 

 testifies 



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