{"id":2944,"date":"2023-05-04T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/archives\/2944"},"modified":"2020-01-24T20:21:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T01:21:19","slug":"a-submarine-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/a-submarine-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">May 4, 1863, <em>Semi-Weekly News<\/em> (<st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:city w:st=\"on\">San Antonio<\/st1:city>, <st1:state w:st=\"on\">Texas<\/st1:state><\/st1:place>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>A draft has been presented to us by Messrs. Wilson &amp; Richardson, of a newly invented submarine boat, designed for the destruction of the enemy&#8217;s blockaders at our ports!<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Of course no description can now be given of this invention in print, but it will be fully explained on application to Messrs. Wilson &amp; Richardson.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>It is sufficient here to state, that the invention has been fully tested in <st1:city w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">Mobile<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>, and no doubt of its entire success as a submarine boat, remains.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>A boat of this kind is now being constructed in <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:city w:st=\"on\">Mobile<\/st1:city><\/st1:place>.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Messrs. W. &amp; R., desire to organize a company in this city, to carry this important enterprise into execution, near our bays.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>The cost will be quite small, and they have already been ordered half the amount by a prominent citizen of <st1:state w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Those who feel willing to lend their aid to this patriotic enterprise, may obtain full information by applying to Messrs. W. &amp; R. who may be found, for two or three days, at Mr. Sessum&#8217;s store on Maine St.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Messrs. W. &amp; R. say the enterprise can, and should be carried out in the course of a few weeks, and no time should be lost.\u2013News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 4, 1863, Semi-Weekly News (San Antonio, Texas) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A draft has been presented to us by Messrs. Wilson &amp; Richardson, of a newly invented submarine boat, designed for the destruction of the enemy&#8217;s blockaders at our ports!&nbsp; Of course no description can now be given of this invention in print, but it will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":84027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-of-the-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/old-newspaper-thumbnail.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}