An item reported that the American Lewis Nixon (1) invented a submarine which outclassed all the existing submarines. While being submerged she was had an acoustic range which made it possible to discover noises and object on a distance far larger as was possible at that moment. For instance a torpedo boat or another vessel was already notice still two miles distant. She was to be fitted out with new devices for laying or removing torpedoes. (2) Her speed was to be 21 miles.
Notes
1. Probably the item meant mines in stead of torpedoes.
2. Probably the naval architect Lewis Nixon I (7 April 1861 Leesburg, Virginia-23 September 1940 Long Branch, New Jersey) who designed battleships of the USS Indiana-class and supervised the building of the first American modern submarines [Plunger-class world wide better known as the Holland type]. Between late 1904-January 1906 supervision in Russia during the building of ten torpedo boats.
