Tuesday, 28 November 2023

Steinhude Pike - a submarine by Jakob Chrysostomus Praetorius

 While in the environs of Schaumburg-Lippe Bückeburg have a look at this early submarine. The Steinhuder Hecht.

Steinhuder Meer is a large lake with a fortress on it on an artificial island. Wilhelmstein. I visited it when I was a teenager. I did a German exchange (Bristol Hannover) and my hosts took me there. There is a model of the submarine there.




2 comments:

nundanket said...

Now I've heard that some 18th century French military thinkers tried to re-introduce the pike to warfare but........

....I'll get me coat.

tradgardmastare said...

Gosh, this is fascinating…
Alan Tradgardland