Simon Lake’s Argonaut

[jeff of pa]

The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.), 19 Aug. 1897.

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...xt=&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=97


The Argonaut Junior was built by Simon Lake in 1894 of pitch pine, as inexpensive way to demonstrate his principles of submergence that would ultimately change the development of submarine technology. When submerged to a shallow seafloor, a divers’ door could be opened and he could retrieve articles or exit & re-enter the little 14-foot submarine by maintaining a pressurized compartment.

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[BillA]

Jeff, you have quite the sniffer for articles that stand as a testament to poor research/fraud

"the rich treasure of the New Era", 1852

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Era_(ship)

 

[Mackaydon]

The one recovered artifact from the "New Era" was the anchor; the other 'treasure', in the form of jewelry and coins, was robbed off the dead bodies. The boat was filled with living and dead (cholera) immigrants from Germany; getting to within 300 yards of the New Jersey shore before running aground on a sandbar during a nor'easterly. The Captain and many of the crew abandoned ship leaving a couple hundred passengers to fend for themselves. A tragic part of New Jersey history.
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