Posts Tagged ‘ss1’
April 11, 1900: The First Submarine of the Navy, USS Holland (SS-1) (Naval History Blog)
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This article was written by Captain Frank T. Cable as The Submarine Torpedo Boat Holland: First Submarine to Become a Part of the United States Navy for the February 1943 issue of Proceedings magazine.
My association with the inventor Holland dated from early in 1897. I was living in Philadelphia at the time as a technician connected with the Electro-Dynamic Company of that city. My first acquaintance with the submarine Holland was made through reading a graphic newspaper account of her remarkable features, as they were then regarded. It reminded me of Jules Verne’s Nautilus...
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USS Holland (SS-1) makes her first successful submerged run: 17 March 1898 (Naval History Blog)
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