Anonymous ID: 15c6d9 Feb. 14, 2018, 4:27 p.m. No.377972   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

British naval historian Richard Compton-Hall stated that the problems of achieving neutral buoyancy would have rendered the vertical propeller useless. The route the Turtle would have had to take to attack HMS Eagle was slightly across the tidal stream which would, in all probability, have resulted in Ezra Lee becoming exhausted having only 20 minutes of air. There is no record of the Royal Navy recording an attack.[2] In the face of these and other problems Compton-Hall suggests that the Turtle got nowhere near HMS Eagle and the entire story was fabricated as disinformation and morale-boosting propaganda, and that if Ezra Lee did carry out an attack it was in a covered rowing boat rather than the Turtle.[2]

 

https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Eagle_(1774)