Engineering:List of pre-Holland submarines
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List of pre-Holland submarines is a list of submarines constructed prior to USS Holland (1900) and HMS Holland 1 (1901).
List
Name | Builder | Launched | disposed/lost | Notes |
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unnamed | Magnus Pegel | 1605 | considered to be first sub constructed in modern times | |
unnamed | Cornelis Drebbel | 1620 | propelled by oars | |
unnamed | Denis Papin | 1690 | ||
unnamed | Yefim Nikonov | 1720 | build for Peter the Great in Russia | |
Turtle | David Bushnell | 1775 | 1777 | first submarine vessel used in attempted combat |
Nautilus | Robert Fulton | 1797 | 1802 | built for the French Navy |
Submarino Hipopótamo | Jose Rodriguez Lavandera | 18 Sep 1837 | tested in Ecuador | |
Brandtaucher | Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft | 1851 | 1 Feb 1851 | designed by Wilhelm Bauer, sank during trials, model displayed in the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden |
USS Alligator | Neafie & Levy | 1 May 1862 | 2 Apr 1863 | first United States Navy submarine |
Pioneer | Horace Lawson Hunley | Feb 1862 | 25 Apr 1862 | first submarine built for the Confederate States of America (CSA), replica is at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center |
Bayou St. John submarine | unknown | 1861 | 1863 | built for the CSA. On display at the Capitol Park Museum - Baton Rouge |
Plongeur | Arsenal de Rochefort | 16 Apr 1863 | 2 Feb 1872 | Built for French Navy, converted to water tanker in 1873, sold for scrap in 1937 |
American Diver | Horace Lawson Hunley | Jan 1863 | Feb 1863 | built for the CSA, sank in Mobile Bay |
H. L. Hunley | Horace Lawson Hunley | Jul 1863 | 17 Feb 1864 | built for the CSA, first combat submarine to sink a warship. Located at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center in Charleston, South Carolina |
Intelligent Whale | Price and Bushnell | 1863 | Sep 1872 | on exhibit at the National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey |
Sub Marine Explorer | Kroehl and Patterson | 1865 | 1869 | abandoned on shore of the island of San Telmo in the Pearl Islands |
Ictíneo II | Narcís Monturiol | 20 May 1865 | Dec 1867 | intended for Spanish Navy, sold for scrap, replica on display at harbor of Barcelona |
Flach | Karl Flach | 1866 | 3 May 1866 | built for Chile , lost in the Bay of Valparaiso |
Resurgam I | George Garrett | 1878 | ||
Resurgam II | George Garrett | 26 Nov 1879 | 25 Feb 1880 | sank in Liverpool Bay, replica on display near Woodside terminal of Mersey Ferry |
Holland I | John Philip Holland | 22 May 1878 | 1878 | scuttled, raised in 1927, on display at the Paterson Museum in New Jersey |
unnamed | Stefan Drzewiecki | 1878 | human powered, model in the National Maritime Museum in Gdansk . | |
Toro Submarino | Peruvian Navy | 1880 | 16 Jan 1881 | scuttled to avoid capture |
Fenian Ram (Holland II) | John Philip Holland | 1881 | 1883 | on display at the Paterson Museum in New Jersey |
unnamed | Russia | 1881 | converted from human to electric propulsion by Stefan Drzewiecki in 1884, on display in the Central Naval Museum, Saint Petersburg | |
Holland III | John Philip Holland | 1881 | Nov 1883 | stolen and sunk in Hudson River |
Zalinski Boat (Holland IV) | John Philip Holland | Sep 1885 | 1886 | funded by Edmund Zalinski, sold in 1886 |
Nordenfelt I | Thorsten Nordenfelt | 1886 | 1886 | Sold to Greek Navy, scrapped 1901 |
Abdül Hamid (Nordenfelt II) | Barrow Shipyard | 6 Sep 1886 | 1910 | Nordenfelt class, first submarine to launch a live torpedo underwater, scrapped |
Abdül Mecit (Nordenfelt III) | Barrow Shipyard | 1886 | 1910 | Nordenfelt, scrapped |
Nautilus | Ash and Campbell | 1886 | became stuck in the mud during trials and was discontinued | |
Porpoise | James Franklin Waddington | 1886 | never sold, broken up for scrap | |
Nordenfelt IV | Thorsten Nordenfelt | 1887 | 1887 | Sold to Russian Government, scrapped |
Gymnote | Zédé & Krebs | 24 Sep 1888 | 1908 | research sub, completed over 2,000 dives, scrapped |
Peral | Isaac Peral | 1889 | 1890 | build for Spanish Navy, on display at Cartagena Naval Museum |
Plunger (Holland V) | John Philip Holland | 7 Aug 1897 | 1899 | scrapped in 1917 |
Argonaut Junior | Simon Lake | 1894 | 1895 | |
Argonaut 1 & Argonaut 2 | Simon Lake | 1897 | 1901 | Argonaut 2 was an enlarged reconstruction of Argonaut 1 |
Protector | Simon Lake | 1901 | 1904 | sold to Russia in 1904 |
See also
- List of submarines of the United States Navy
- List of submarines of the Royal Navy
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