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Show oo SUBMARINES NOT INVULNERABLE The British naval authorities at Portsmouth have been making some important experiments to determine the effect of high explosive shells fired by a warship at a submerged submarine For this purpose it was decided to utilize the il-fated submarine subma-rine Al as a target, this being the vessel that sank with her entire crew seven vears ago off the Isle of Wight Since her salvage she had been used as an Instructural vessel, and only recentlv was passed out of the service serv-ice A' week or two ago she was towed tow-ed out to the Nab, near the scene of the 1904 disaster, sunk by means of weights to a depth of a dozen feet, H and then fired at by a torpedo gun- , (H boat, in tho presence of a staff H drawn from the Vernon Torpedo and H Excellent Gunery schols. The result H was satisfactory to the gunners, in H a sense, for a few shells sufficed to ' jH send the submarine to the bottom; H but now the problem is to raise her H again, so as to see the effect of the H shell fire upon her hull, nad the dif- i M flculties of salvage are admitted to H he considerable. H |