Published Resources Details Journal Article
- Title
- French Submarines
- In
- The Engineer
- Imprint
- vol. 92, 37140, p. 255
- Description
Accession No.2748
- Abstract
"It is reported that the chief of staff of the French navy intends to put the submarines of both types through a series of comparative manoeuvres, destined to test in practice the soundness of the conclusions reached by theory. The trials which have just been completed with the Narval - between Cherbourg and St. Malo and back by the Morse, between Cherbourg and Havre, and by the Gustave Zede, between Toulon and Ajaccio - have only imperfectly determined the value of each of these types. Combined manoeuvres alone can enable a definite judgment to be formed. It is of the greatest importance that the mistake should not be made of building vessels according to a type which might be proved to be inferior."