Submarine Appliances And Their Uses
Deep Sea Diving, &c., &c.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE Divers of the British Navy .. .. 4 Training Divers for the British Navy .. 8 Divers wearing Dresses with and without laced legs .. .. . . 13 Divers blown up to the surface . . 14 Recompression Chamber .. .. 18 Models illustrating working of Diving Dress under different conditions .. 20 Air distributing device for one or two Divers .. .. ■ ■ .. .. 23 Regulating Outlet Valves, various types of ............................... •• 25 Inlet Valve of Diver’s Helmet, Sectional view .. .. ■ ■ 26 Outlet Valve of Diver’s Helmet, Sectional view .. • • • • 27 Diver’s Helmet complete and discon- nected to show details .. .. 28 4-way J unction .. .. . • • • 30 Diver’s Telephone, Single Diver Type 32 Diver’s Telephone, Double Diver Type 33 Drying Diving Dresses, method of .. 34 Stage for Cleaning Ships’ bottoms . . 56 Wire Rope Cutting Machine .. .. 58 Photo of interior of Diving Bell, taken 65 feet below surface .. .. 63 Self-contained Diving Apparatus .. 66 Colombo Breakwater .. .. .. 67 Diving Bells (ordinary type) on Dover Harbour Works .. .. .. 70 View of above works showing 45-ton block being lowered into sea . . .. 71 Combined Diving Bell and Decompres- sion Chamber .. .. .. .. 72 Diving Bells on Folkestone Harbour Works . . .. • • • • • • 73 Air-Lock Diving Bell at Gibraltar .. 74 Air-Locks for sinking Caissons.. .. 76 Winchester Cathedral, Divers at foundations of ... ..78-79 PAGE Submarine “A3” of the British Navy 80 Submarine Life-Saving Devices 82, 84, 86, 87, 89, 90, 91 Shallow Water Diving Dress . . .. 92 Smoke Helmet .. .. .. • • 92 Submarine Rock Blast .. • • 100 Methods of Connecting Fuses in Series and in Parallel .. .. • • 108 Blowing up the Steamer “ Egret ” .. 109 Submarine Rock-cutting Plant .. Ill Submarine Mines .. .. 115-117 Submarine Cable Grapnels .. 118-119 Deep Sea Sounding Machines . . 120-122 Moorings and Mooring Buoys .. 123-124 Submarine Signalling Apparatus 125-126 Salvage Operations :— H.M.S. “ Howe ” .. .. • • 131 H.M.S. “ Gladiator ” .. 132-138 5.5. “ Kottingham ” .. .. • • 139 “Royal George” .. .. •• 141 5.6. “ Woll ”.........................142 H .M.S. “Eurydice”.. .. •• 145 “ Puffin ” .. ■ • ■ • 146-147 5.5. “ Anglia ” .. • • • • 148 5.6. “ Montgomery ” .. ■ • 148-149 5.7. “ Fleswick ” .. • • • • 151 Pearl Fishing .. . • • • 153-154 Sponge Fishing .. .. • • 156-157 Ancient Diving Appliances (numerous illustrations) .. .. .. 158-169 Types of Deep Sea Diving Dresses 171 Relics from the Deep .. .. 173-175 Lambert in Treasure Room of “ Alphonso XII.” ....................176 Erostarbe and two of his Silver Bars .. 177 A Submarine Monster .. .. .. 180 Cannon and Shot recovered from “ La Lutine ” .. .. .. .. 182 Oxygen Breathing Apparatus .. .. 183 3