Brandtaucher: World’s Oldest Surviving Submarine
Kaushik Patowary
May 28, 2024
At the German Armed Forces Museum of Military History in Dresden, there is a big fat iron submarine on display. Built in 1850, this pioneeri...
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The Sinking of U-boat 864
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 9, 2023
During World War II, German U-boats wrought havoc upon Allied supply lines and commercial shipping inflicting heavy losses on merchant convo...
The World's Deepest Submarine Rescue
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 23, 2023
More than eighty hours after the Titan submersible lost contact with its surface ship while on a dive to explore the wreck of the Titanic a...
Operation Sandblast: The First Submarine Circumnavigation
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 14, 2023
In the early 16th century, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan embarked on a historic expedition to the East Indies across the Pacific, ...
Hunley: The Submarine That Wouldn’t Come Up
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 30, 2021
On 17 February 1864, the Confederate submarine CSS Hunley attacked and sank a 1,240-ton United States Navy ship, the USS Housatonic , and e...
Bathysphere: The World’s First Deep-Sea Exploration Vessel
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 7, 2020
On the afternoon of September 22, 1932, listeners across America and the UK tuned their radio sets to an extraordinary live broadcast that w...
The Submarine Sunk By Her Own Torpedo
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 28, 2019
The U.S. Navy submarine USS Tang off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, December 1943. Photo credit: U.S. Navy Throughout the Second W...
John Lethbridge’s Diving Machine
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 12, 2018
This strange apparatus hanging at the Cité de la Mer museum in Cherbourg, France, looks like some kind of a medieval torture device, but is...
This Wooden Barrel Was The World’s First Military Submarine
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 13, 2016
The possibilities of a submersible boat that could cruise below the water’s surface undetected and ambush enemy ships has fascinated militar...
The Beached German Submarine U-118 at Hastings, England
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 21, 2015
In the morning of 15 April, 1919, the townsfolk of Hastings, in Sussex, on the south coast of England, woke up to an astonishing sight. A hu...
The “Submarine Pits” on Boca Chica Key
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 1, 2015
Boca Chica Key is an island in the lower Florida Keys approximately 4.8 km east of the island of Key West, which itself is about 244 km sout...
Submarine Emerges From Beneath a Street in Milan
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 6, 2013
In a publicity stunt last week, an Italian insurance company installed a massive submarine that appeared to have emerged from underneath an ...
