Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1896-12-03

oy q tuOe connecting with the air
chamber of his boz His errand
accomplished, he entsrs the boat,
the water being pumped out of the
third chamber before he passes to
the cabin. The submarine boat
then moves of, leaving the torpedo
to do its deadly work at set time.
Virissimo Barboza de Souza, Of
Pernambuco, Brazil, has patented
in this country novel submarine
boat, which, like a fishworm, can
be separated in parts, each part re-
naming alive and intact. When
put together this sectional boat is 8
long cylinder, like q lead pencil,
sharpened at both ends. There are
altogether three sections, the first
and third having each on the in
ner side a concave into which the
conical ends of the middle section
fit. An armored conning-tower
with lenticular windows rises above
the centre of each section. Air
and water tanks inside each part eff
feet the rise and fall of the vessel,
or of the three vessels If they be
separated. The middle and rear
sections have independent motors
and the front section is strongly
braced to resist shock. For this
same purpose the functions between
the three sections are padded. This
long vessel darts along, beneath the
water, launching torpedoes and do
ing all possible damage to the bulls
of the enemy's battleships. Should
projectile strike one section the
crew within would Immediately don
diving suits, escape to the upper
deck and enter one of the other Sec
tons by means Of a safety door
similar in principle to that des-
cribed above. The injured part
would then be cut off, the remain
ing sections continuing to retreat.
The crew would thus have two
chances of escape before the whole
vessel could be demolished.
A patent gwen to Samuel Bar
ton is for a giant submarine tor
pedo which will destroy itself as
well as q hostile vessel, upon con-
tact with the latter. Its cabin &C
cOmodates crew of several men,
necessary to navigate the torpedo.
The whole resembles huge shut
tie. tapering to sharp point at the
bow, but with large slice cut out
of the upper part of the rear half,
to afford an after deck, The fore
part is heavily armored and by
reason of its shape will easily de-
fleet a heavy projectile. A shell
chamber in the point of the bow
contains heavy charge of explo-
sive, which ignites when the object
of attack is struck. On the after
deck, protected by the forepart,
hangs a lifeboat or launch ready to
be detached at any moment. On star
ting to attack a vessel the great tor
pedo is sunk until the water rises
enough above the afterdeck to float
the life boat in its davits. On APP
proacEing firing distance, the crew,
excepting the engineer and pilot,
don diving suits or preservers,
leave the cabin and escape in the
lifeboat. The engineer then puts
the vessel under full steam and the
pilot, venturing near enough to
the enemy's ship, lashes his steer
ing gear tightly, so that the tor
pedo will continue toward the OBJ
jective point in a straight path.
The pilot and engineer then put on
buoyant suits, having water-tight
lamps in their helmets, and iump
overheard, being afterward recover
ed by the escaped crew. Mean
while the monster torpedo plows
furiously through the foam, max
ing mad rush for the enemy, who
II not observant, tail to thwart il
because of the curvature of the bow.
The vessel is designed particularly
for night attacks, but in the in
ventor's opinion would be valuable
also for day warfare, only q small
part of it being visible above the