• Plongeur (French for "Diver") was a French submarine launched on 16 April 1863. She was the first submarine in the world to be propelled by mechanized...
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  • Look up plongeur in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Plongeur, the French word for diver may refer to the following The French submarine Plongeur An employee...
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    Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (category Submarines in fiction)
    comparatively primitive vessels. Jules Verne saw a model of the French submarine Plongeur at the Exposition Universelle in 1867, which inspired him while...
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    submarine not to use human propulsion was French submarine Plongeur (2) of the French Imperial Navy (French: Marine Impériale Française), was launched...
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    Fulton's real-life submarine Nautilus (1800). For the design of the Nautilus, Verne was inspired by the French Navy submarine Plongeur, a model of which...
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  • occupation of Lima. The first submarine that did not rely on human power for propulsion was the French Navy submarine Plongeur, launched in 1863, and equipped...
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    for submarines, which led to their large impact in World War I. The first submarine not relying on human power for propulsion was the French Plongeur (Diver)...
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    sequence included submarines built in France for foreign navies, accounting for several gaps in the 'Q' numbering below. Plongeur (1863–1872) Gymnote...
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    active French Navy ships. The French Navy consists of nearly 100 vessels of the Force d'action navale (Naval action force) and the 9 submarines of the...
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    documented record of use in combat French submarine Plongeur – launched a few months before Hunley Peral Submarine – 1888 submarine from Spain, the first to be...
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    sous-marin en France [The Technical and Human Odyssey of the Submarine in France: From Plongeur (1863) to Guêpe (1904)] (in French). Vol. 1: Du Plongeur (1863)...
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    Motay ran a car powered by a pneumatic motor on a test track in Chaillot, France, on 9 July 1840. Although the car test was reported to have been successful...
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    sous-marin en France [The Technical and Human Odyssey of the Submarine in France: From Plongeur (1863) to Guêpe (1904)] (in French). Vol. 1: Du Plongeur (1863)...
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    sous-marin en France [The Technical and Human Odyssey of the Submarine in France: From Plongeur (1863) to Guêpe (1904)] (in French). Vol. 1: Du Plongeur (1863)...
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    sous-marin en France [The Technical and Human Odyssey of the Submarine in France: From Plongeur (1863) to Guêpe (1904)] (in French). Vol. 1: Du Plongeur (1863)...
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  • sous-marin en France [The Technical and Human Odyssey of the Submarine in France: From Plongeur (1863) to Guêpe (1904)] (in French). Vol. 1: Du Plongeur (1863)...
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    ironclad warship nine years later. In 1863, the Navy launched Plongeur, the first submarine in the world to be propelled by mechanical power. In 1876, Redoutable...
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    inspired by the earlier development of the submarine Plongeur, the world's first mechanically powered submarine. Gymnote was an experimental design and so...
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    sous-marin en France [The Technical and Human Odyssey of the Submarine in France: From Plongeur (1863) to Guêpe (1904)] (in French). Vol. 1: Du Plongeur (1863)...
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    the first mechanically powered submarine, Plongeur, in 1863, France had shown a keen interest in submarines as a way of off-setting the naval superiority...
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    Siméon Bourgois (category Submarine pioneers)
    for the submarine Plongeur in 1858, and when he created the plans in 1860, under the code name Q00. Plongeur was the world's first submarine to be propelled...
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    Submarine in France: From Plongeur (1863) to Guêpe (1904)] (in French). Vol. 1: Du Plongeur (1863) aux Guêpe (1904). Bourg-en-Bresse, France: Marines édition....
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    sous-marin en France [The Technical and Human Odyssey of the Submarine in France: From Plongeur (1863) to Guêpe (1904)] (in French). Vol. 1: Du Plongeur (1863)...
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  • Lenoir in Paris.[citation needed] Submarine : The first submarine not relying on human power was the French Plongeur (meaning diver), launched in 1863...
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    sous-marin en France [The Technical and Human Odyssey of the Submarine in France: From Plongeur (1863) to Guêpe (1904)] (in French). Vol. 1: Du Plongeur (1863)...
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    away from the object. H. L. Hunley (CSA submarine) Plongeur (French submarine) Toro Submarino (Peruvian submarine) "Recovering Chile's 19th Century Shipwrecks...
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    sous-marin en France [The Technical and Human Odyssey of the Submarine in France: From Plongeur (1863) to Guêpe (1904)] (in French). Vol. 1: Du Plongeur (1863)...
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  • Marie-Joseph-Camille Doré (category French military personnel of the Crimean War)
    of the Plongeur, the first submarine in the world to be equipped with mechanical propulsion. He led the experiments in sailing the submarine in 1863–1864...
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    The French submarine Z was an experimental submarine built for the French Navy (Marine nationale) in the first decade of the 20th century. Designed by...
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    architect and politician Charles Brun who had worked on the first French submarine Plongeur, was ordered on 31 December 1906 from the Toulon Naval Base (Arsenal...
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