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    Gymnote was one of the world's first all-electric submarines and the first functional submarine equipped with torpedoes. Launched on 24 September 1888...
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    Redoutable (1876) Armoured cruiser Dupuy de Lôme (1890) Electrical submarine Gymnote (1888) Ammunition Lepage fulminate (1807–10) Pauly-Prélat integrated cartridge...
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    for several gaps in the 'Q' numbering below. Plongeur (1863–1872) Gymnote (Q1) (1888–1908) Gustave Zédé (Q2) (1893–1909) Morse (Q3) (1899–1909) Narval...
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    100 mm of armour. Dupuy de Lôme was laid down at the Brest shipyard on 4 July 1888 and launched on 27 October 1890. A number of her forged steel armour plates...
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    submarine Gymnote in 1888 and 1889. The Spanish inventor Isaac Peral equipped his submarine Peral (developed in 1886 but launched on September 8, 1888) with...
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    Captain Krebs and Captain Renard". In 1888 Krebs and Gustave Zédé designed the first modern French submarine, the Gymnote. The submarine was fitted with the...
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    Boat Company was founded 1893. Peral Submarine Spanish submarine of 1888 Gymnote French submarine History of submarines Plunger (1897) Holland I Holland...
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    patent 1,050,654 Flying-machine Peral Submarine Spanish submarine of 1888 Gymnote French submarine Award for Navy's first submarine Holland's daughter...
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    180 psi (1,200 kPa). In 1888, Gymnote was the first submarine equipped with specific metal[clarification needed] batteries. Gymnote would be followed by...
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    "useless curiosity", scrapping the project. 1888–1890: Gustave Zédé and Arthur Constantin Krebs launch the Gymnote, a 60-foot submarine for the French Navy...
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