![]() The installation is made from over 300 book covers, ‘rescued’ from the United Service Institution of WA Library (a library belonging to Officers of the Defence Forces at the Perth Barracks) that was disbanded a few years ago and was going to be sent to landfill. The submarine along with its 35 crew disappeared later that year, while on patrol near New Guinea, and after being lost for 103 years was discovered again in 2017. This large-scale 14 metre long installation is made in the shape of the AE1 – the first Australian Submarine- built in 1913. Video for Australian National Submarine Museum: This installation is now displayed at Shenton College, Shenton Park, WA Listen to an artist interview () between myself and Andre Lipscombe about this exhibition on the Art Collective Website: (opens for PIAF festival exhibition 12 Feb) WARSHIP- the Glorious Decline of the Officers’ LibraryĪn installation by Jo Darbyshire At John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, WA 21 October 2018 - 10 March 2019 Aft WARSHIP- the Glorious Decline of the Officers’ Library After the test, Holland shot a dummy torpedo about 30 yards through the water, proving, according to a contemporary account, "beyond doubt that the boat's capabilities of destruction were all that could be wished.12. Holland, who had moved to Newark, first launched the Holland VI in 1897 at an Elizabeth shipyard, and it stayed below surface for so long that it was thought lost. It is generally believed to be the first modern submarine and, with a few alterations, was purchased by the Navy for $150,000 in 1900. One sunk during its getaway flight up the East River, and the Fenian Brotherhood didn't know how to operate the other and abandoned what they called their "salt water enterprise." (That vessel, called the Fenian Ram, is now on display at the Paterson Museum.) Holland's sixth vessel was a 54-foot-long, 15-man craft with a porpoise-shaped hull that could cruise underwater at 6 knots. His next efforts were funded by Irish nationalists the Fenian Brotherhood, who wanted to use the craft against the British, but the revolutionaries and Holland had a falling-out over money, and the brothers stole two of Holland's vessels and towed them away. ![]() Holland eventually stripped the craft and sank it in the Passaic. ![]() It dove to a depth of 12 feet and was able to stay submerged for an hour. The experimental vessel, built mostly in New York but finished at a Paterson shop, was launched before a large crowd in 1878 on a slow-moving stretch of the Passaic River just above the Great Falls. Holland built his first submarine while working as a teacher at a Paterson parochial school in the 1870s. The salvaged craft did eventually succeed in sinking a Union battleship, but at the cost of its crew, who either drowned or ran out of oxygen. Eight men, including the craft's inventor, later died when the Hunley failed to surface during a mock attack. A Confederate craft, the CSS Hunley, was flooded during a test run when someone accidentally stepped on the wrong lever, submerging the boat with the hatches still open, killing five. During the Civil War, the Navy commissioned a 47-foot-long oar-propelled submersible called the Alligator, but on its maiden runs in two Virginia rivers, the Navy discovered neither was deep enough for the craft to submerge. When it returned, the sailor had difficulty attaching the explosive, and was forced to detonate the charge in the water when British ships noticed the strange vessel bobbing nearby. On its maiden voyage, it was towed out to sea, but the tide swept it past the warship. ![]() During the Revolutionary War, an American built a one-man model called the Turtle, which was to attach charges of gunpowder to the hulls of British ships. The first rudimentary submarine - a wooden rowboat wrapped in waterproof leather with air tubes leading to the surface - managed to stay submerged in the River Thames for three hours in 1620. Navy 300 years later, is checkered with international intrigue, spectacular failures and mishaps that would be laughable had they not on occasion been fatal. The long journey in the development of the submarine, from Leonardo da Vinci's 16th-century sketches to the first modern vessel commissioned by the U.S. ![]()
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