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THE SUBMARINE TORPEDO BOAT
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Le Morse. 1899
here that Le Morse was one of the first
boats to be fitted with a periscope, which
however was a very crude affair. In the
middle nineties, after receiving competi-
tive plans, the French adopted a type
designed by Lauboeuf, a naval construc-
tor. To this type they have adhered
more or less ever since. The Narval,
built according to the Laubeouf plans
and launched in 1899, was a double hull
boat and fitted with fore and aft hydro-
planes.
During this period the number of in-
ventors and inventions relating to sub-
marine boats ran up into the hundreds.
The inventors counted amongst their
numbers doctors, lawyers, priests, farm-
ers, and shoemakers; in fact men from
almost every walk of life, and as might
be expected almost nothing of any prac-
tical value was accomplished by them.
One name stands out however, that of
Bauer, a German, and should be recorded
in the pages of submarine history. Bauer
was the first German to take up this de-
velopment and evolved some excellent
and very practical ideas. These ideas he
laid before the German Government, but
was confronted with political enmity as
well as professional jealousy and publicly
derided. He then took his plans to Rus-
sia where he was given the support nec-