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But modern warfare is of so complex a nature that direct comparisons fail, and only a careful analysis of military experience determines the potentiality of a weapon and its influence on warfare. Robert Fulton and Admiral Fournier both indicated that they believed in the submersible's supremacy in actual encounter with capital ships.
At Murphy's order the unconscious Germans were put aboard the cruiser; later, when the remainder of the submersible's crew came up, one at a time, they were disarmed and lined up on the little deck; whereupon Michael J. Murphy addressed their spokesman thus: "Listen you!
I presented the submarine, with the compliments of the Blue Star Navigation Company, to the Republic of France, and the President accepted, all hands went out on deck and we cracked a bottle of champagne over that submersible's bows and rechristened her." "What name?" Matt and Skinner chorused. "The Shamrock out of compliment to Mike and Terence." "Fine!" Matt cried. "Then what?" "Nothing, Matt.
Of a sudden the periscope disappeared from the crest of the sea as though wiped out completely by the explosion of the Dewey's shell. "No doubt of it, boys; you ripped off that periscope," announced McClure, with an air of finality. At their commander's words the gun crew burst into cheers. The submersible's wireless was singing out a message of good cheer to the American fleet.
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