Published Resources Details Journal Article

Author
Towell, F. G.
Title
Letters to the Editor: Submarine Boats
In
The Engineer
Imprint
vol. 90, 36776, p. 247
Description

Accession No.2754

Abstract

"Sir - In your Dockyard Notes of the current issue you give the names of several proposed American submarine boats, Adder, Shark, &c.; remarking that they are mostly appropriate enough, but asking, why Mocassin? Perhaps your contributor was thinking of that term merely as the name of Indian foot gear, but it also denotes the Mocassin snake, and is therefore just as fitting as the other."

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