submarines

Covers the logistics of diving, surfacing, steering, navigating, detecting obstacles, and attacking with nuclear missiles. Photos show men at work inside the cramped quarters...the use of small subs, or submersibles, for industrial or scientific use is noted--Booklist.

Tells the story of the "H. L. Hunley," the Confederate submarine that in 1864 became the first to ever sink an enemy ship but lay missing on the ocean floor for more than a century, describing its creation, its discovery, skeletons and objects found onboard, and facial reconstructions of several crew members by forensic anthropologists.

Photographs, diagrams, and text describe thirteen submarines from around the world, including the USS "Holland," the Navy's first submarine, and the nuclear-powered USS "Nautilus.".

During the Revolutionary War, fourteen-year-old Nathan joins forces with his older cousin, the inventor David Bushnell, to secretly build the first submarine used in naval warfare.

Describes the role of various types of submarines in modern warfare.