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Holland (SS-1)

Holland Class Submarine: Laid down in November 1896 at Crescent Shipyards, Elizabeth, NJ; Launched in March 1897; Purchased by the Navy, 18 April 1900; Commissioned, USS Holland, 12 October 1900; Decommissioned and simultaneously struck from the Naval Register, 21 November 1910, at Norfolk, VA; Final Disposition, sold, 18 June, 1913, to Henry A. Hintner & Sons, Philadelphia, PA.

Specifications: Displacement; Surfaced 64 t., Submerged 74 t.; Length 63' 10"; Beam 10' 3"; Draft 8' 6"; Speed, Surfaced 8 kts, Submerged 5 kts; Depth Limit 100'; Complement, 1 Officer, 6 Enlisted; Armament, one 18" torpedo tube, three torpedoes, one bow mounted 8" pneumatic dynamite gun; Propulsion, Otto Gas Engine Works, gasoline engine, HP 45, Fuel Capacity, 1050 gals; Electro Dynamic electric engine, HP 55; Battery Cells, 60, single screw.

Size	Image Description	Source By
105k	Submarine History Profiles: First true submarine: Holland (SS-01) in 1900. First U.S. Deisel submarine:E-1 (SS-24) in 1911. First Fleet boat:V-1 (SS-163) in 1922. First GUPPY: Odax (SS-484) in 1947. First nuclear powered submarine:Nautilus (SSN-571) in 1954. First submarine to completey circumnavigate the earth submerged:Triton (SSRN-586) in 1959. Latest generation of U.S. ballastic submarines:Ohio (SSBN-726), in 1980.	US Navy photo courtesy of Robert Hall. Photo i.d. courtesy of Dave Johnston.
30k	The Holland (SS-01) slides down the building ways March 1897 at Crescent Shipyards, Elizabeth, NJ.	Photo from War Under The Pacific, by K.Wheeler and submitted courtesy of Robert Hurst. Photo added 07/18/07.
59k	The Holland (SS-01) firing her bow Zalinsky dynamite gun while docked at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, in the spring of 1898. The projectile is visible in flight, in the photograph's upper right.	US Navy photo # NH 63089 courtesy of the US Naval Historical Center. Courtesy of Dr. R.K. Morris.
79k	Holland (SS-01), stern view showing her propeller, taken in the Raritan Dry Dock, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, 1898.	USNHC photo # 53462.
101k	Holland (SS-01), being placed in the water at Greenpoint, Long Island, New York, while undergoing trials in 1899. Note the two-masted schooners in the background.	USNHC photo # 53440.
101k	Holland (SS-01) hauled out of the water at Morris Heights, Harlem River, New York, during the winter of 1898-1899. Her stern has been extensively modified to relocate her steering mechanism and diving planes aft of her propeller.	USNHC photo # 63090.
97k	Modified in her final form, Holland (SS-01),is shown at Greenpoint, Long Island, in 1899. Rudders have been moved abaft the propeller. The box above is probably Holland's auto-steering device. The after pneumatic gun has been removed. Forward, the bow cap has been raised (hauled up) to reveal the blanked -off muzzle of the single torpedo tube. The two masts folded down when the boat submerged.	Photo & text courtesy of U.S. Submarines Through 1945, An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. Naval Institute Press.
75k	Holland (SS-01), in dry dock, 1900.	US National Archives photo # 19-N-6778, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.
83k	Holland's boat was modified for U.S. naval service in 1900, with planes and rudders moved abaft the propeller and the after pneumatic dynamite gun removed. This boat was never fitted with a periscope. Note that the engine, whose shaft was low in the hull, had to be geared to the propeller shaft so that the latter could run along the axis of the hull. The main ballast tank was brought up the boat's sides outboard of the battery; it's top was U-shaped. Holland patented this configuration, which he (and then Electric Boat)used in later designs. It made for relatively easy flooding and formed a bilge down the boat's centerline. The U-shape contributed structural strength. Largely because the U-shaped tank had been patented, Simon Lake had to use flat-topped tanks., which caused him serious problems. In this boat, the air compressor was driven by an auxillary motor; in later Holland & Electric Boat designs, auxiliaries were geared to the propellers or shafts.	Drawing by Jim Christley. Text courtesy of U.S. Submarines Through 1945, An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. Naval Institute Press.
145k	Holland (SS-01), in drydock, circa 1900, probably soon after she entered Navy service.	USNHC photo # NH 59.
261k	1902 postcard showing the Holland (SS-01),at US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD.	US Navy photo courtesy of Darryl Baker. Negative scanned courtesy of By Design, Benicia, CA.
46k	Watercolor by the artist Jim Christley entitled Holland 1903. Shown here on the surface in Peconic Bay, she was the first submarine to use the system of an air breathing engine and generator for surfaced propulsion and a battery, electric motor combination for submerged propulsion. This system is in use today in all but nuclear powered submarines.	Photo & text courtesy of subart.net.
30k	Holland (SS-01), in the foreground with the Russian battleship *Retvizan* entering the dry docks at the New York Navy Yard, date unknown.	US Navy photo courtesy of the US Naval Historical Center.
71k	Holland (SS-01), at the US Naval Acadamy, Annapolis, MD. The crew on deck are, L to R: Harry Wahab, chief gunner's mate; Kane; Richard O. Williams, chief electrician; Chief Gunner Owen Hill, commanding; Igoe; Michael Malone; Barnett Bowie, Simpson, chief machinist mate, and Rhinelander.	US Navy photo courtesy of the US Naval Historical Center.
143k	Holland (SS-01), date and place unknown.	US Navy photo courtesy of Mike Green.
30k	John Philip Holland.	US Navy photo courtesy of the US Naval Historical Center.