Submarines

Since the beginning of times, and the famous Nautilus of the Capitain Nemo, the man never cease to imagine and develop ships that can dive and move in the deep of the Ocean....

The Subs ancestors

The barrel of Alexander invented by the engineers of Alexander the Great in 325 BC. The legend says that Alexander the Great himself used this first diving bell in 325 BC.
The diving bell developped by Edmund Halley (1656 - 1742). The discoverer of the famous comet built a diving bell in which three men lived during one hour and forty-five minutes under thirty feet of water....
The Turtle conceived in 1775 par the American David Bushnell. This first operational submarine attacked on Sptember 6th 1776 HMS Eagle, a british ship of 64 guns
The Nautilus developped in 1797 by Robert Fulton, moved by hand with three sailors.

The first Sub-marines

Le Plongeur built by the French Bourgois et Brun in 1863 (Air compressed engine / 421 Displacement tons).
L'Ictinéo First submarine using combustible (steam and peroxyde) launch in 1867 by the Catalan Narcís Monturiol.
Le Goubet construit en 1885 par Claude Goubet.
Le Gymnote launched in 1887 by Dupuy de Lôme et Zédé, 51 feet long, 4 knots while diving.
Le Narval built by Lauboeuf in 1904. This ships got on steam engine and one electrical engine.
La Méduse : Submarine of the beginning of the XXth century.