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Turtle: David Bushnell's Revolutionary Vessel
Westholme Publishing, 2010 Paper: 978-1-59416-257-2 | Cloth: 978-1-59416-105-6 | eISBN: 978-1-59416-653-2 Library of Congress Classification E207.B92M35 2010 Dewey Decimal Classification 973.35092
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The Remarkable History and Reconstruction of the First Operational Submarine David Bushnell was raised in the town of Saybrook at the mouth of the Connecticut River. More than two centuries later, another Turtle would be launched into the same river within sight of Bushnell’s first forays with his vessel during the summer of 1775. Under the direction of technical arts teacher Frederic J. Frese, students at Old Saybrook High School created a working replica of Bushnell’s submarine, facilitated through an education partnership with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, Rhode Island, where Roy R. Manstan was a mechanical engineer and Navy trained diver. With twenty-first century submariners at the helm, the Turtle replica was subjected to a series of operational tests at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut. In Turtle: David Bushnell’s Revolutionary Vessel, the authors provide new insight into Bushnell’s “engine of devastation,” tracing the history of undersea warfare before Bushnell and the origin of the many innovations Bushnell understood would be necessary for conducting a covert submarine attack. The knowledge gained from testing the Turtle replica enabled the authors to speculate as to what America’s first submariner Ezra Lee experienced that September night and what may have caused the attack to fail. See other books on: Inventions | Naval | Naval operations, American | Revolution, 1775-1783 | Turtle See other titles from Westholme Publishing |
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