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In fact, this was almost an inevitable conclusion for them, because before the abandonment of submarines in war on account of their too great powers of destruction a circumstance which had also led to the prohibition of the use of explosive bombs in the aerial navies the French had held the lead in the construction and management of submersible vessels, even more decisively than in the case of aeros.
"What were our seamen about?" returned Cosmo. "How many of them got off? I warned them that ships would not do. But it was a bright idea of this De Beauxchamps and his friends to build a submersible. It didn't occur to me, or I would have advised their construction everywhere for small parties. But it would never have done for us.
There has also been a steel hawser strung from the bow across the highest point of the vessel to the stern, so that the submersible can underrun a net without entangling the superstructure. Some nets are towed by surface vessels. The process is necessarily slow, and to be effective the surface vessel must know the exact location of the submersible.
"Most certainly," said the admiral; and, accompanied by his staff, he followed Metcalf aboard the submersible. "It is very simple," explained Metcalf, showing a rough diagram he had sketched. "You see he has used my system of reflectors about as I designed it.
I insert myself through this double opening into the longboat. My crew close up the hole belonging to the Nautilus; I close up the one belonging to the skiff, simply by screwing it into place. I undo the bolts holding the skiff to the submersible, and the longboat rises with prodigious speed to the surface of the sea.
Suddenly there came a cry of triumph from the forward turret aboard the Lawrence. A British shell had struck squarely aboard the nearest submersible. The little vessel seemed to fly into a thousand pieces. A moment later it disappeared from sight. A second mighty cheer rang out. "It's not all over yet," said Jack grimly. Frank, who overheard the words, nodded his assent.
Indeed, it looks as if the navy of the future will tend first to the submersible types and later abandon the sea for the air, and the "illimitable pathways of the sea" will yield to still more illimitable pathways of the sky. The consequence is bound to be a closer knitting of the peoples of the world through the conquering of distance by time.
"And if any of them should cross our path," he said to his second, "just let them go before the prow!" He wished this so that he could send his vessel upon the submersible at full speed, daring it to come on. The Mediterranean was no longer the same sea that it had been months before when the captains knew all its secrets; he could no longer live on it as confidently as in the house of a friend.
It is true that submarines may be made so large that they can steam at great speed from place to place, as capital ships steam now, carry large supplies of fuel and food, house their crews hygienically, and need no "mother ship" or tender. But if submarines achieve such size, they will be more expensive to build and run than battleships and will be, in fact, submersible battleships.
He had been awakened by hearing the first shot fired by the submersible against his steamer. The chase had lasted half an hour. The most audacious and curious were on the decks and believed their salvation already sure as they saw their ship leaving its enemy behind.
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