At Kevin's request this week I focus on the Turtle, the first American submarine. Its 1776, with the American Revolution in full swing and on September 7 the world's first submarine attack occurs. The ...

I n August 1776, with the ink barely ... It proved one critical point: undersea warfare was possible and worth pursuing, with the Turtle becoming the first submarine ever built for military use.

The Turtle embarked on its first voyage to sink a British ship on Sept. 6, 1776. Bushnell's target was the H.M.S. Eagle, a 64-gun flagship of Admiral Lord Howe anchored just north of Staten Island ...

A replica of the Bushnell Turtle, an early submersible built by American inventor David Bushnell and first deployed in 1776 during the Revolutionary War.Although the original Turtle was lost to ...

The Turtle, the world's first submarine used in combat. was a one-man submarine used for attack on the HMS Eagle in NYC in 1776 during the American Revolution.

At 11pm on September 6th, 1776, Sargent Ezra Lee began cranking away on a lever that propelled the tiny submersible that he sat inside of. His goal was to make his way to the British Flagship HMS ...

America's first submarine dates to the Revolutionary War. Built by a Connecticut inventor, it sailed into New York Harbor in 1776 with a mission to blow up a British warship. It was ahead of its ...

In August 1776, with the ink barely ... It was called the Turtle, a one-man submersible, 7.5 by 6 ft in size, built in secret by American inventor David Bushnell and his team at Yale.