Submarine Mystery Questions of the Week - 18 May 2009

Background:

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A Captain, U.S.N., included the following paragraph in his public article on U.S. ranking among world naval powers.

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.................................................... Submarines

....In the present state of naval development, the submarine is essentially a vessel designed as an important part of the mobile defenses of our coasts or outlying possessions. It is understood that the French Government is now designing and building a type of submarine, which it is believed will be able to accompany the fleet even in distant operations, its radius of action and habitability having been developed to the extent which makes such a use of this type of vessel a probable success. Of this type, the submarine, England possesses seventy-four, Germany fourteen, United States twenty-six, France sixty-six, Japan ten, and Russia thirty-one.

Mystery Questions of the Week (comments are allowed):

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1 - What year was the Captain's article published?

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2 - What was the Captain's name?

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3 - Would the French be the first naval power to develop a sub capable of accompanying their fleet?

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4 - Bonus Question: What was the good Captain's title?

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Answers Thursday

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Submarines are always silent and strange.