The USS Holland was based at New Suffolk's Holland Torpedo Boat Station from 1899 to 1905. Seven submarines built by the Holland Torpedo Boat Company...
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Holland Torpedo Boat Company was founded by John Philip Holland (1841 – 1914) in 1893. Holland was an Irish engineer-inventor, who designed and built the...
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commanding. Holland was built at former Navy Lieutenant Lewis Nixon's Crescent Shipyard of Elizabeth, New Jersey for John Holland's Holland Torpedo Boat Company...
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USS Grampus (SS-4) (redirect from USS Grampus (Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 4))
Superintendent of Construction at Union Iron Works. She was tested at the Holland Torpedo Boat Station. Her christening was marred by a failure of the ribbon from which...
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the Holland Company in 1903 and scrapped in 1917. Holland VI – First modern submarine in the United States Navy built by the Holland Torpedo Boat Company...
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base at Balaklava in the now Autonomous Republic of Crimea. The Holland Torpedo Boat Station at hamlet of New Suffolk, New York claims to be the first submarine...
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American 18-inch torpedo Schwartzkopff torpedo Bliss-Leavitt torpedo Howell torpedo Holland Torpedo Boat Company Holland Torpedo Boat Station Naval mines (which...
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United States Navy submarine bases (category Naval Stations of the United States Navy)
The USS Holland was based at Hamlet's Holland Torpedo Boat Station, open from 1899 to 1905. Seven submarines built by the Holland Torpedo Boat Company...
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USS Adder (redirect from USS Adder (Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 3))
Wainwright. Adder was commissioned on 12 January 1903 at the Holland Torpedo Boat Station at New Suffolk, New York with Ensign Frank L. Pinney in command...
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USS Plunger (SS-2) (redirect from USS Plunger (Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 2))
Boat Company yard at Holland Torpedo Boat Station, New Suffolk, New York on 19 September 1903. Assigned to the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport, Rhode Island...
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A PT boat (short for patrol torpedo boat) was a motor torpedo boat used by the United States Navy in World War II. It was small, fast, and inexpensive...
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USS Moccasin (SS-5) (redirect from USS Moccasin (Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 5))
on 17 January 1903 at the Holland Torpedo Boat Station at New Suffolk, N.Y. Assigned to duty at the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport, Moccasin operated...
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The Fairmile D motor torpedo boat was a type of British motor torpedo boat (MTB) and motor gunboat (MGB), conceived by entrepreneur Noel Macklin of Fairmile...
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called "aerial torpedoes". In 1897, an 8.4-inch (210 mm) Zalinski dynamite gun was fitted to the first commissioned US submarine USS Holland (SS-1). It was...
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separate from Suffolk County. Long Island Suffolk County, New York Holland Torpedo Boat Station "Peconic Estuary Partnership - NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation"...
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History of submarines (category Dutch inventions)
Royal Navy commissioned the Holland-class submarine from Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness, under licence from the Holland Torpedo Boat Company during the years...
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The Z-class torpedo boats were a class of twelve warships that served in the Dutch Koninklijke Marine, German Kaiserliche Marine, Polish Marynarka Wojenna...
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The submarine USS Holland (SS-1), the first commissioned submarine in the U.S. Navy, along with five other Holland Torpedo Boat Company-designed submarines...
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Plunger-class submarine (section Boats in class)
Union Iron Works in San Francisco. The five East Coast boats were based at Holland Torpedo Boat Station at New Suffolk, New York from 1903 until 1905, allowing...
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USS Plunger (1895) (category John Philip Holland)
(SS-2). The original Plunger was kept by the Holland Torpedo Boat Company at its Holland Torpedo Boat Station in New Suffolk on Long Island, New York. She...
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1908 and 1910 fourteen big boats with four torpedo tubes and two reload torpedoes were ordered. These boats used a kerosene engine which was safer than...
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large-caliber guns, the invention and refinement of torpedoes from the 1860s onwards allowed small torpedo boats and other lighter surface vessels, submarines/submersibles...
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USS Porpoise (SS-7) (redirect from USS Porpoise (Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 7))
commissioned at the Holland Torpedo Boatyard at New Suffolk, New York on 19 September 1903. Assigned initially to the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport for...
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other submarines of the Holland Torpedo Boat Co. were based at this site which was known as the Holland Torpedo Boat Station. Naval maneuvers between...
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fielded operationally. Submarines (U-Boote) Motor torpedo boats (S-Boote - Schnellboote or E-Boats as designated by the Royal Navy) Larger surface vessels...
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December 2016. "USS Holland (Submarine # 1) -- Construction". USN Ships. Department of the Navy. 10 June 2004. Retrieved 9 June 2009. "Holland I (SS-1)". Dictionary...
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Pegaso was a torpedo boat and an escort aviso of the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy). She was one of the most successful Axis anti-submarine warships...
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(533 mm) torpedo tubes, four forward and two aft with 12 torpedoes, plus a 5-inch (127 mm)/51 caliber deck gun. Unfortunately, the first three V-boats had...
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Kriegsmarine (redirect from U-Boat Arm)
be sent in July 1936. These large ships were accompanied by the 2nd Torpedo-boat Flotilla. The German presence was used to covertly support Francisco...
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out, when U-15 fired a torpedo (which missed) at HMS Monarch. Two of the ten U-boats were lost. Later in the month, the U-boats achieved success, when...
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