Press / The Bushnell Turtle
On a summer night in 1776, an American soldier named Ezra Lee steered a tiny wooden submarine…
Creativity thrives in unexpected places. Deep in the Norwell woods, at the end of a mile-long, rutted dirt road…
At midnight, September 7, 1776, a strange craft on a deadly mission made its way down the Hudson River…
In the pale, early light of an overcast morning, men and horses struggle to lower a 6,000-pound wooden ship into Snug Harbor…
More than 200 years have passed since America's first submarine, the Turtle, ans sailed in a naval battle, but its design continues to fascinate…
Brought down to Annapolis, the new Turtle was placed in a large tow tank at the Academy's Hydromecahnics Lab…
The task was to recreate the Turtle, a one-man wooden submarine built in 1776 to carry a bomb and blow up a British warship…