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The French-designed 1862 Alligator, first submarine of the U.S. Navy. During the American Civil War, the Union was the first to field a submarine. The French-designed Alligator was the first U.S. Navy sub and the first to feature compressed air (for air supply) and an air filtration system. It was the first submarine to carry a diver lock ...
USS Holland (SS-1) was the United States Navy's first submarine, although not its first underwater watercraft, which was the 1775 submersible Turtle.The boat was originally laid down as Holland VI at the Crescent Shipyard of Elizabeth, New Jersey for John Philip Holland's Holland Torpedo Boat Company, and launched on 17 May 1897.
John Philip Holland (Irish: Seán Pilib Ó hUallacháin/Ó Maolchalann [citation needed]; February 24, 1841 [1] – August 12, 1914 [2]) was an Irish marine engineer who developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the US Navy, and the first Royal Navy submarine, Holland 1.
Holland Torpedo Boat Company was founded by John Philip Holland (1841 – 1914 [1]) in 1893.Holland was an Irish engineer-inventor, who designed and built the first practical submarine.
Electric Boat built the first nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, which was launched in January 1954, and the first ballistic missile submarine, USS George Washington, in 1959. Submarines of the Ohio, Los Angeles, Seawolf, and Virginia classes were also constructed by Electric Boat.
First nuclear powered submarine. First submarine to travel under the North Pole. Museum ship, U.S. Navy Submarine Force Museum, Groton, Connecticut SSR-572 Sailfish: Lead boat of a class of 2 SSR-573 Salmon: SSG-574 Grayback: Lead boat of a class of 2. Converted and re-designated as LPSS-574 (amphibious transport submarine) on 30 Aug 1968. SSN ...
The American Turtle – built in 1775, the world's first submersible with a documented record of use in combat; French submarine Plongeur – launched a few months before Hunley; Peral Submarine – 1888 submarine from Spain, the first to be powered by electric batteries
Julius Hermann Kroehl (in German, Kröhl) (1820 – September 9, 1867) was a German American inventor and engineer. He invented and built the first submarine able to dive and resurface on its own, the Sub Marine Explorer, technically advanced for its era.