Submarine Sets Sea Afire to Trap Enemy Ship
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Surface boats of belligerents will face a-new menace if the incendiary submarine, a four-foot model of which was tested recently, proves successful for war purposes. The menace will be a “sea of fire” which can be made to engulf a vessel by releasing a large quantity of liquid fuel from beneath the surface. In a recent demonstration the model dove underwater and sent up a bubble consisting of six quarts of oil that spread quickly over a 50-foot circle. Chemical detonators released with the fuel turned the mass into a blazing inferno that lasted five minutes, The inventor believes attacks of this kind would be possible against seaports by launching the oil so it would ride in with the tide.
- Title (Dublin Core)
- Submarine Sets Sea Afire to Trap Enemy Ship
- Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
- Submarine Sets Sea Afire to Trap Enemy Ship
- Language (Dublin Core)
- eng
- Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core)
- World War II
- Date Issued (Dublin Core)
- 1941-12
- Is Part Of (Dublin Core)
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Popular Mechanics, vol. 76, n. 6, 1941
- pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
- 7
- Rights (Dublin Core)
- Public Domain (Google digitized)
- Source (Dublin Core)
- Google books
- Archived by (Dublin Core)
- Enrico Saonara
- Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
