Engineering:List of pre-Holland submarines

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
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