Siméon Bourgois
Siméon Bourgois was a 19th-century French Navy vice-admiral who was especially involved in the development of early submarines. He was born in Thionville, Lorraine, on 26 March 1815, and died in Paris on 24 December 1887. He held the rank of captain when he presented together with Charles Brun his project for the submarine ''Plongeur'' in 1858, and when he created the plans in 1860, under the code name Q00. ''Plongeur'' was the world's first submarine to be propelled by mechanical (by opposition to human) power. He later became a vice-admiral Admiral is one of the highest ranks in some navies. In the Commonwealth nations and the United States, a "full" admiral is equivalent to a "full" general in the army or the air force, and is above vice admiral and below admiral of the fleet, ... and was influential in the development of the French "Jeune Ecole" ("Young school") school of thought which promoted a modern Navy based on small, powerful units using new technologies. H ...
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