The original turtle was built in 1776 by farmer David Busnell to deliver a bomb to the bottom of a British warship. The attack failed, but Busnell became famous as having built the first US submarine
Photograph Details
Type of Photograph
Color
Collection
Aboard Berkeley Photograph Collection
Made/Created
Artist
Wolinsky, Cary
Studio
Handshouse Studio
Date made
n.d.
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Print, Photographic
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Photograph
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic Documents
Nomenclature Class
Documentary Objects
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
Search Terms
VIII-C- Replicas of historic ships, III-A-6 U.S. Navy -- Submarines
