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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Holland submarine torpedo-boat. (search)
f a century of work. Possibly some people will exclaim against my statement that only one life has been lost in a submerged boat. They will point to half a dozen cases of record where whole crews lost their lives. The answer to that is very simple. The majority of cases so recorded were utterly without foundation. In other cases, the men operating the submarine boats were drowned while they were using them as surface boats, and because of that fact. The boat built by McClintock and Howgate for the Confederates sank four times with her crews, the last time after she had blown up the Housatonic. These accidents are charged against submarine navigation, when the fact is that had the boat been used as intended, under water, instead of on the surface, she would not have lost a single life. Admiral Hichborn, chief constructor of the navy, went extensively into the question of fatal accidents in submarine navigation. He found there were eighty-three cases set down at various ti
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
arry contributions for relief of suffering poor in Ireland, sails from New York......March 30, 1880 Allen G. Thurman, elected president of the Senate pro tem., serving till April 15......April 7, 1880 Congress accepts from Thomas Jefferson Coolidge and others, of Massachusetts, the desk used by Thomas Jefferson in writing the Declaration of Independence, to be deposited in the Department of State......April 28, 1880 President Hayes authorized to accept the steamship Gulnare from H. W. Howgate, and fit her up to establish a temporary station for Arctic scientific observation at some point north of 81°, or on or near the shore of Lady Franklin Bay......May 1, 1880 Appropriation bill vetoed because of a clause modifying the election laws......May 4, 1880 Republican Anti-third-term Convention held at St. Louis, Gen. John B. Henderson, presiding......May 6, 1880 Allen G. Thurman chosen president pro tem. of the Senate...... May 6, 1880 Postmaster-General Key resigns...