Meet the American who is 'the father of the modern submarine.' The first U.S. and British submarines, the USS Holland and HMS Holland, were the designs of John Philip Holland.
His second model, dubbed the Fenian Ram, successfully launched in New York City in 1881.
"A full-scale vessel, the Fenian Ram had many of the features we associate with modern submarines," notes the Irish American Museum. Naval Academy Midshipmen aboard the USS Holland , the first official U.S. Navy submarine, commissioned in 1900. The Holland spent much of his service training Midshipmen for the future of submarine warfare. Date of image unknown. A new business partner emerged: Isaac Rice, a pioneer in
"It carried a crew of 15 and had a torpedo tube in the bow. It took its first dive on St. Patrick’s Day, 1898, in New York Harbor and was acclaimed a success." "Years later, another was erected in its place, and the original stone was transferred to his hometown of Liscannor and dedicated by the U.S. Navy Submarine Force."
In addition to helping found, if not profit from, Electric Boat, Holland today enjoys acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. A model of the first ever British submarine, the Holland No. 1 on display in Trafalgar Square, London, a year after the launch of the actual vessel in 1901.
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