Talk:History of submarines

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" killed 39 during trials??? ==

I have surfed several sites including http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/i2/intellig.htm and found no mention at all of any deaths during testing. Is there some corroborating information somewhere? If not, this part should be changed. Steve Hyland (talk) 10:41, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

update: nor was it built by A. Halstead, according to the site above and others. He wound up with the rights to it after several years of litigation. Steve Hyland (talk) 10:50, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Sub Marine Explorer
I wonder if the Sub Marine Explorer should be mentioned here. --345Kai 23:35, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Nikonov
It's occasionally claimed, mainly by Russian sources, that the first military submarine was, at least in prototype form, by Yefim Nikonov in 1720. I'll see if I can dig up a good English-language reference. --Delirium (talk) 06:53, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Birkenhead
I saw this at close to the Woodside terminal of the Mersey Ferry in Birkenhead, Wirral and a stone's throw from the Shore Road Pumping Station. My first reaction was to tag it db-context because there was absolutely no word of explanation. Then I realised I was in the real world.

It is about 10 metres long and the hull is about 3 metres diameter. The use of wood suggests it is very old (as subs go). Can anyone supply details? &mdash; RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 15:30, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
 * It's a replica of one of the two Resurgam submarines built during Victorian times and was put on display at the Woodside Ferry Terminal in 1997. Hope that helps. Coldmachine Talk 16:31, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Many thanks. &mdash; RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 17:57, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Removal of Unreliable Source
I have removed information from this article drawn from or sourced from the paper "The First Attempts of Flight, Automatic Machines, Submarines and Rocket Technology in Turkish History" by Arslan Terzioglu. This source is unreliable, as discussed on Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 27. Dialectric (talk) 15:56, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Quote
"There were 70 operational submarines in 1939. Two classes were selected for mass production, the sea going "S class" and the ocean going "T class" as well as the coastal "U class". All were built in large numbers during the war." This quote is in the 'Britain' section; surely 'S class', 'T class' and 'U class' adds up to three classes?

Page width
At the moment, the 'Articles on specific vessels' section runs off the side of the page, (at least it does so on my screen, using IE 8). I'd fix it myself, but I don't know how to.
 * RASAM (talk) 13:38, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

History of Nuclear submarines
This article is in-depth on early conventionally-powered submarines and is already over 86,000 bytes long. However, the history of more modern nuclear-powered submarines is not very in-depth in the article. Part of the problem is that some information on nuclear submarines is classified, and there is not that much information published on nuclear submarines. Accordingly, I have inserted a hatnote in the corresponding section of this article stating one can read more in the Nuclear submarine article. I may add a little more information in that article some day. H Padleckas (talk) 20:32, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

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The section on The Turtle seems to have been edited by someone with a strange POV. It suggests the accounts of the Turtle were fabricated, citing a Mr. Compton-Hall's 1983 book as source, and mocks a trial of one of several replicas made. Compton-Hall's out of date book is filled with "quirky stories and clever tidbits", according to the single review on Goodreads. However, contemporary accounts and original source documents, documented in the Beginning of Modern Submarine Warfare by Henry L. Abbot, 1881, reproducing over 30 "authorities" or original sources, suggests otherwise -- it includes published accounts by Busnell, Gale, and Lee. The best book, and most recent on this subject, is by Roy R. Manstan and Frederic J. Frese, Turtle, David Bushnell's Revolutionary Vessel which reviewed the "many interpretations" of the last 200 years "sentence by sentence", for credibility and accuracy. I suggest the whole discussion on Crompton-Hall be reduced to a single contrarian comment, the two more reliable books be used for citations, and the Acorn story, as amusing as it seems, be replaced (or augmented) by the successful replica trials in August 20, 1977, and in May 2008 (hosted by the Mystic Seaport Museum). The first submarine actually used in combat, and the first propeller used to power any watercraft, deserves something better than what amounts to historical vandalism through selected quirky citations. Harrycroswell (talk) 11:02, 15 September 2017 (UTC)Harrycroswell

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Recent edits (April 2020)
The Early section here claimed (and has been claiming since 2008!) that The first submersible to be actually built in modern times was constructed in 1605 by Magnus Pegelius. The source, which was only added in 2013 (and is actually about William Bourne) doesn’t mention Pegel at all, and there’s nothing on his English or German WP page that supports the notion that he actually built a submarine and tested it. So I’ve taken it out. I’ve also trimmed the stuff about the Sub Marine Explorer; someone had claimed it was the first to successfully dive, cruise below the water surface and emerge to the surface again by its own (which misses the mark by more than 50 years) and other puffery. I've also fixed a couple of other howlers. I trust everyone is OK with that. Xyl 54 (talk) 15:49, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Physics
Submarines are designed to move over and under the sea explain briefly ??? 39.51.86.217 (talk) 08:55, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
 * See displacement and buoyancy 2A02:C7F:2C68:D500:6D84:A993:6A33:A9DA (talk) 13:27, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

Lead
I've taken a punt at expanding the lead. 2A02:C7F:2C68:D500:6D84:A993:6A33:A9DA (talk) 13:27, 4 October 2022 (UTC)


 * I don't think it is factual that the history of submarines spans all of human history. That's a bit like saying modern medicine has existed since the Middle Kingdom because people very much wanted to heal sickness. 2601:249:9384:9C90:48F3:4C6:A84C:59AB (talk) 02:29, 1 April 2024 (UTC)