From Wikipedia.
Like I said in the last post, I had never heard of this man and his submarine.
Narcis Monturiol i Estarriol (1819-1885) was a Spanish inventor and the first man to develop and air independent and combustion-driven submarine. He solved the fundamental problem of underwater navigation with the first fully operational submarine.
The Ictineo I was 23 feet long, powered by humans and developed to help harvest coral. He invented it in 1859 and made fifty dives in it before it was accidentall destroyed January 1862 when a cargo vessel ran over it. This must have been the submarine that Confederate agent Quinterro wrote about from Mexico.
The Ictineo II was launched on October 1864, still powered by humans. Monturiol continued experimenting and came up with a chemical combination which put out heat and oxygen. He planned to have the heat power a small steam engine on the boat.
On October 1867, he ran the ship by steam on the water's surface and in December, he ran it submerged.
It worked, but lack of money doomed his submarine.
So, Another Sub-Marine Vessel. --Old B-R'er
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