Connecticut museum exhibit explores the Turtle, America's first combat submarine

Shaped like an acorn and built for subterfuge, the Turtle was armed with a bomb and a mission. The Turtle, the brainchild of ...

It’s the famous CT submarine you’ve likely never heard of. Here’s why it was made.

It’s called a legacy that runs straight through to the nuclear submarines built at Electric Boat in Groton today.
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The World’s First Combat Submarine

Its nickname was the “Turtle”. During the American Revolution, an American inventor developed an underwater vessel that could destroy British ships by attaching a bomb to the hull of a ship. These are ...
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Turtle : David Bushnell's revolutionary vessel / Roy R. Manstan and Frederic J. Frese

David Bushnell built a submarine in 1776 and attempted to use it to sink the British flagship HMS Eagle. More than two centuries later students at Old Saybrook High School created a working replica of ...