Submarine

was John P. Holland. He is widely considered the Father of the Modern Submarine and I consider him influential because he made a major impact on the way that battles at sea are fought. Holland was born in Ireland where he grew up and worked as a teacher, later immigrating to the United States in 1873. He found employment at an engineering firm and again as a teacher at St. John’s Catholic School. His inspiration for the submarine was in his reading of the battle between the ironclads Monitor…

They decide to pass the time by searching the ocean’s floor with the submarines spotlight. Shortly thereafter, Klenze grows increasingly insane and demands to go be with “Him” and Altberg-Ehernstein opens up the chambers for Klenze to swim to his inevitable death to be with “Him”. Once Altberg-Ehernstein is finally alone, he…

invented in 1698. He went on to work in the steamship and canal industry where he had many great achievements. Fulton’s innovations to the steamboat and his brilliant invention of the submarine would change America for the better. Robert Fulton’s…

thousand ships were sunk by German U-boats alone (Golson). Submarines became a huge weapon during the time of World War I. Jan S. Breemer, a submarine warfare expert and professor of national security affairs at the US Naval War College in Monterey, California says, “The submarine was the absolute weapon of World War I. They were difficult to locate and hard to attack. Navies didn’t have any traditional responses for dealing with the submarine” (Golson). One of the five thousand ships sunk by…

“Shadow Divers” by Robert Kurson is an adventurous depiction of a group of amateur deep sea divers who discover a U-boat, a World War 2 era German submarine, sunken in the deep waters off the coast of New Jersey. The sea divers eventually find out that there are no official records listing a sunken sub at that location and later set out to determine the lost identity of the mysterious U-boat. Kurston focuses on the two main divers who obsessed over the U-boat, John Chatterton and Richie Kohler,…

This dear America book is called my secret war, a diary of 13 year old Madeleine Beck taking place in 1941. At the start of the book it talks about how Maddie's father is a Navy officer and is on an aircraft carrier protecting the Pacific. She is now living in Long Island, New York. She is having trouble making friends and likes this boy in her class johnny. She and johnny become friends because he thinks it's so cool that she has a dad in the navy. Once she and Johnnie become friends,…

Marko Alexandrovich Ramius, captain of a Soviet nuclear submarine, had a rough childhood. Five childhood events impacted his life. Memories of his grandmother’s stories, of tattling on a fellow student, of his friend’s murder, of his abuse by other students, and of his experiences in military school altered his view of the world he lived in. Lack of freedom and disillusionment with authority were instilled in him at a young age. It eventually led him to become the man who decided to defect from…

Red Maelstrom Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto manga/anime and One Piece. manga/anime Ch.4 Along Pirates Suddenly one of the villagers comes running screaming "PIRATES! EVERYONE! PIRATES HAVE COME! PIRATES! EVERYONE HIDE! The Arlong Pirates! Arlong?" "No way! Why would mermen from the Grand Line come all the way here? So the rumor about mermen pirates splitting up was true?" the mass of villagers begin to murmur between themselves. "Nami! Nojiko!" both girls stop running and turn towards the…

catastrophic missions, and how to assign responsibility and blame when risk becomes reality. Stanton successfully argues that Navy leadership was partly responsible for the ship's sinking because the Navy failed to mitigate the risk that an enemy submarine would sink…

The boat, despite many bugs that needed to be worked out, preformed to the team’s expectations and in the result preformed well. There are many aspects to how the boat performed as well as it did and why some of the problems that were encountered were present. These aspects include the physics concepts of buoyancy and efficiency; the design choice to have the propeller bellow water and a narrower, longer body; and testing and debugging the vessel to work optimally. The vessel operated well due…