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The Turtle (also called the American Turtle) was the world's first submersible with a documented record of use in combat. It was built in Old Saybrook, Connecticut in 1775 by American Patriot David Bushnell as a means of attaching explosive charges to ships in a harbor. Bushnell designed it for use against British Royal Navy vessels occupying North American harbors during the American Revolutionary War. Connecticut Governor Jonathan Trumbull recommended the invention to George Washington; although the commander-in-chief had doubts, he provided funds and support for the development and testing of the machine.

Several attempts were made using the Turtle to affix explosives to the undersides of British warships in New York Harbor in 1776. All failed, and her transport ship was sunk later that year by the British with the submarine aboard. Bushnell claimed eventually to have recovered the machine, but its final fate is unknown. Modern functional replicas of the Turtle have been constructed; the Connecticut River Museum, the Submarine Force Library and Museum, and the Royal Navy Submarine Museum have them on display.

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1. Turtle (submersible) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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   Bushnell claimed eventually to have recovered the machine, but its final fate is unknown. Modern functional replicas of the Turtle have been constructed; the ...
   

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   Turtle (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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   Turtle Submarine - David Bushnell

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   David Bushnell designed and built a submarine torpedo boat in 1776.
   
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   Handshouse Building the Replica of David Bushnell's Turtle

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   Building the Replica of David Bushnell's Turtle. In 1776, during the American Revolution, a Connecticut Yankee by the name of David Bushnell had a daring ...
   
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   David Bushnell - Inventor of the Week: Archive

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   By the end of that summer, Bushnell had solved his problem by inventing a vessel he called the "Turtle": the first submarine. The Turtle did not resemble that ...
   
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   No. 1385: Bushnell's Submarine

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   Bushnell enlisted a soldier to take the Turtle under the British ship Eagle and plant a charge. Once there, the man couldn't anchor the charge to the copper-clad ...
   
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   Bushnell Turtle (1775) Midget Submarine - History, Specs and ...

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   The Re-Invention of Bushnell's Turtle - United States Naval Academy

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   David Bushnell of. Saybrook, Connecticut, a recent graduate of Yale and ardent patriot, designed and built the Turtle for this purpose. Made out of wood and ...
   
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    The Submarine Turtle: Naval Documents of the Revolutionary War

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    Bushnell had devised Turtle as a means of breaking the British blockade of Boston harbor but because of problems with the vessel, detailed in the letters of Dr.
    
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    A 1776 Submarine

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    The Connecticut River Museum in Essex, Ct. owns the only working, full-scale model of David Bushnell's 1776 invention, the American Turtle (Diagram of Turtle).