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Taiwan completed the maiden sea trial for its first domestically developed submarine on Tuesday, a major step in a project aimed at strengthening deterrence against the Chinese navy and protecting ...
Image by Zoe Daheron, ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution After more than 100 years, we have the first actual image of the wreck of a sunken U.S. Navy submarine from World War I.
He did not build it, but his design might have inspired Dutch inventor Cornelis Drebbel, who was at the service of King James I of England when he created the first functional submarine, in 1620 ...
He did not build it, but his design might have inspired Dutch inventor Cornelis Drebbel, who was at the service of King James I of England when he created the first functional submarine, in 1620 ...
The USS Iowa (SSN 797) — the Navy’s first submarine to be named after the U.S. state — was commissioned in a ceremony on Saturday at Naval Submarine Base New London in Connecticut.
The first functional military submarine was invented by the Spaniard Isaac Peral in 1888. With a capacity for 12 crew members, it could launch three torpedoes and had an electric propulsion system.
Drebbel's first submarine was built in 1620, while he was under the employment of the English Royal Navy. It featured a sealed wooden shell, made watertight with greased leathers.
North Korea revealed its first nuclear-powered submarine, posing a threat to the United States and South Korea. Kim Jong Un has inspected its construction progress.
Philip Ball dives into the magical world of Cornelis Drebbel , inventor of the world's first submarine in 1621.
The one-man submersible was used during the Revolutionary War in 1776, which is an incredible 156 years after Dutch inventor Cornelis Drebbel launched the first known submersible in 1620.
Lt. Cmdr. Amber Cowan made history in 2022 when she became the first woman to serve as an XO on a U.S. Navy submarine. Service officials now say they expect to see a woman command a submarine by ...
The Hunley, built during the American Civil War, became the first successful combat submarine as it sank a Union ship, but unfortunately, it lost more Confederate crew members than enemy sailors.