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Blueprints' Discovery Sparks Search for Historic Sub
By Michael E. Ruane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, December 15, 2003; Page B01
(Blueprints are posted below - TS )
Catherine G. Marzin, a researcher with the federal government's National Marine Sanctuary Program, didn't know what awaited her that morning in the French naval archives outside Paris.
She was on the trail of one Brutus De Villeroi, a 19th-century French inventor who in 1861 designed the U.S. Navy's first submarine. The archives didn't have a biographical file on him. But the agency did have a box of his papers.
When Marzin, 34, opened the box in May and extracted file 3084, she was stunned. Inside were hand-drawn antique sketches of a vessel shaped like a fountain pen. It had a series of tiny portholes, a diver's chamber and strange, folding oars sticking out of its sides. "PLANS du Bateau Sous-Marine," the drawings said]http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/alligator/blueprints/sub1_1000.jpg[/img]
Edited By TMSmalley on 1071516487
By Michael E. Ruane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, December 15, 2003; Page B01
(Blueprints are posted below - TS )
Catherine G. Marzin, a researcher with the federal government's National Marine Sanctuary Program, didn't know what awaited her that morning in the French naval archives outside Paris.
She was on the trail of one Brutus De Villeroi, a 19th-century French inventor who in 1861 designed the U.S. Navy's first submarine. The archives didn't have a biographical file on him. But the agency did have a box of his papers.
When Marzin, 34, opened the box in May and extracted file 3084, she was stunned. Inside were hand-drawn antique sketches of a vessel shaped like a fountain pen. It had a series of tiny portholes, a diver's chamber and strange, folding oars sticking out of its sides. "PLANS du Bateau Sous-Marine," the drawings said]http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/alligator/blueprints/sub1_1000.jpg[/img]
Edited By TMSmalley on 1071516487
) [Must - control - urge - to - start - new - sub! Must - control........] 
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