Published Resources Details Letters Patent
- Title
- Submarine torpedo-boat
- Imprint
- United States Patent Office, 3909
- Description
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 970,210. Application filed April 14 1908.
Accession No.1454
- Abstract
"This submarine is adapted for every purpose for which the present type is applicable, together with the greater purpose of being carried, as an auxiliary equipment to war vessels and cruisers; its size, arrangement and working being such as to enable it to be operated and entirely controlled in its movements by a single operator, situated within the boat; thus making it essentially a one man operated torpedo-boat in contra-distinction to that class of submarine torpedo-boats operated by a general crew, while the weight of the boat is such as to enable a number thereof being carried by a war vessel as a portion of its permanent armament…"