Mattie's+Nautical+Project

BY: Mattie Lansford
 * __My Nautical Project__** [[image:bhwikiworld/Attack_Submarines_cool_text.png width="452" height="137"]]

__ Materials used in Nautical Project __
 * E 6000 glue
 * PVC Bull nose tee 6” by 6” by 4” by 12 ½ in.
 * Poster board- 18 by 24 in.
 * 3 pieces of foil 18 in. by 18 in.
 * Tape roll
 * Scissors
 * Measuring tape
 * Ruler
 * 9 toothpicks
 * Hedge clippers
 * Parts out of toy cars; semi-truck, dodge ram, hot rod
 * Foil 2 1/4 in. by 8 ¼ in.
 * 2 foil 4 in. by 9 in.
 * Simply orange juice bottle cap
 * Black metallic paint
 * Paint brush
 * Piece of foam
 * Bottle of water
 * Littlest pet shop chair
 * Marshmallow looking foam
 * Printer for labels
 * Box cutter
 * 1 in. long wood piece

How to make a submarine

First gather all of your supplies. Then take your poster board and cut three pieces with these measurements: 13 in. long by 5 ½ in. wide and 13 in. by 4 in. wide. Then after that get the desired pieces you picked out and place them into different places in different rooms. For example, chairs in either crew’s quarters or control room and motors in the engine room. But sometimes to get them the right size, you use the hedge clippers. After that, cut 4 pieces of board with the box cutters with measurements of 5 in. long by 2 in. tall and 3 pieces that are 4 in. long by 2 in. tall. After that is shaping the sub with the foil pieces. Take the 18 by 18 foil and shape it into a bowl type of shape and tape it to one end of the PVC. After that take the 9 toothpicks and, 3 at a time, tape them like grass weeds in a picture or when you show three with your hand. Then tape them to the cap and get the wood and stick it through the foil. Then attach the wood to the cap and foil. After that take the 4 in. by 9 in. foils and shape them into long cylinders. The cylinders are now your torpedo tubes when attached to the sides of the PVC. Then take the other 18 by 18 foil and fold it until it’s the size of the hole on top. And tape it to where you could open in it or it resembles a hatch. With the other 18 by 18 piece, form a large cone form for the front. After all this you can put it all together by sliding you model inside into the PVC and putting the cone foil around it. Now you have a model attack submarine.

__ Attack Submarines __ __Introduction__ Submarines are the great ships that are able to go under water and do many extraordinary things that range from discovering a great geographical find to fighting in wars using the element of surprise. Butattack submarines fight in wars and target enemy ships surfacing and even things on enemy land. __Basics__ This great submarine is extraordinary in the way it works. It has many different rooms that allow it to have different features. For example, the engine room allows it to run, the control room has different radars to identify different things around it, and the torpedo tubes allow the torpedoes to hit the enemy ship. These features allow the magnificent torpedo to dash through the water and still hit the target. These submarines are able to glide easily through the water from their cigar-like shape. They normally size from 290-360 feet long. They, also, have around 130 crew members working the ship. This ship is great in the way it works and how the structure is built. It really is truly fascinating that someone had the idea to build a ship that goes under water with no problem and doesn’t fill up with water! That is so cool. __ Main Way They Help Us __ There are two torpedo tubes on either side of the ship that hold torpedoes that are sent at the enemy. This submarine uses a periscope and great radar and sonar equipment to find the enemy ships. They identify the ships then send the torpedoes soaring through the water like seals after food. When they hit the ships going as fast as lions hunting gazelles, they create holes in the sides that fill the boat with water. Water overflowing, side tipping, the other ship eventually sinks into the deep ocean water. The submarine is very useful because of this and is often used in wars across sea. This makes other countries unaware of the mean fighting machines and gives us an advantage—the element of surprise. __Conclusion__ This submarine, from the beginning creator, William Bourne, to now and to the future, is changing. This great machinery is one of my favorite things involved with oceans, but before this project I hardly even knew about it. This project has benefited me in oceanic ways. J

Bibliography

The resources I used for my research paper are:


 * Book: Nuclear Submarines
 * Book/Internet: World Book Advanced Encyclopedia
 * Internet: []

__Nuclear Submarines__

The book helped me with find the difference between one submarine and another and showed me a little of what it looked like in the inside of a submarine. This book was probably the least thing of information I used because it isn’t really my main project. It really only helped me find how one submarine looked and how another did.

__World Book Advanced Encyclopedia__

The Encyclopedia helped me to see what the real attack submarine looked like. It also gave me access to what the inside basic things were. This was my main source to making my nautical project. It had a great picture of an attack submarine and the model of the inside of it.

__Submarine History__

This gave me knowledge of how the submarines were built then and how different they are now. Although, that isn’t what my project was on it helped me build my submarine. This also gave me the first person to make a submarine. The other website gave it, but this one confirmed it to me by finding it in two different places.