Ships Beneath the Sea: A History of Subs and Submersibles - Hardcover

Burgess, Robert Forrest

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070089582 ISBN 13: 9780070089587

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1975

Synopsis

History: Seas

About this title

About the Author:

Robert F. Burgess has spent most of his life writing about adventures above or below the sea. His books about shipwrecks, sharks, treasure diving, and underwater archeology are acclaimed for the authors ability to put the reader in the middle of the action. An ardent sailor and scuba diver, he and his wife live in northern Florida.

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"On the afternoon of July 29, 1800, a party of picnickers along the banks of the River Seine near Rouen, France, hardly noticed the small sailboat moving sluggishly downriver on a light breeze. ...two men lowered and folded the sail, then disappeared into the small cabin - nothing in the least unusual. But what...shook the picnickers out of their lethargy was to see the vessel continue upriver with no visible sign of locomotion, then slowly sink from sight. ...seventeen minutes later...the boat surfaced...the men hoisted her peculiar sail and calmly sailed away.

What the picnickers had unknowingly witnessed was the first trial run of a remarkable submarine designed by...a young American...named Robert Fulton. It was twenty-eight years before French novelist and fictional submarine forecaster, Jules Verne, would be born...."

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0070089582
• ISBN 13: 9780070089587
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 260