Turkish Submarine Hashish Smoking Sneak-a-Toke, 1908

The Nordenfelt-class Ottoman submarine Abdül Hamid (1886) was the first submarine in history to fire a torpedo while submerged.

Turkish Submarine Hashish Smoking Sneak-a-Toke circa 1908

“Turkish submariners tradition were allowed to smoke hashish off duty. However officers on duty were getting stoned so they invented this ingenious device to funnel the resultant smoke into the exhaust outlet of the submarine.” Located at Juan’s Cafe del Fuego in Dorrigo, NSW, Australia” c.1908


The students of an Ottoman naval school during gymnastics, Istanbul