Just don’t get him confused with the other Holland. Clifford Milburn Holland, another engineer who designed the Holland Tunnel across the Hudson between New York and New Jersey. Both men were great in their own ways

Drug smugglers remain @ the forefront of small sub innovation.

@@jamesbugbee6812 They are semi-submersibles and rely oh high speed and low profile. As the old saying goes; "Any vessel can be a submarine once!"

Someone should make a movie about Holland, oh wait: John Philip Holland: aireagóir an fhomhuireáin nua-aoisigh TV Movie 2016

@@michaeltelson9798 Didn't know about Clifford Holland. Thanks for the education!

There was a Submarine Tender, called the Dixon.

@@charletonzimmerman4205 It could be a reference to him or just a coincidence in history, thanks, I will have to look that up. You also have the same last name as my stepdad who was a great guy to my mom.

@@charletonzimmerman4205 also a sub tender called U.S.S. Horace L. Hunley.

I played on it too but I was so young I can't remember the name of the park.

@@vondumozze738 Yeah, it was Westside Park.

Again, a one off. And you forgot Turtle in the Revolutionary War that actually made attacks though unsuccessful.

Or the Hunley that did make a successful attack. Damn thing sank twice with hands on board before sinking the housitanic and sinking again with all hands. Can't wait to see it in South Carolina some day.

@@webbtrekker534 🐢 turtle power

@@gijake1989 I thought he mentioned it with only about one sentence.

It wasn't even modern

Preservation costs a lot of money. There's already too much spent on the modern equipment nevermind the old. Unless there's a privately funded museum that is going to pay for maintenance, they should be scrapped.

@@slcpunk2740 still would have been nice if it were they would have saved the USS Oregon.

Indeed!

You should get a Holland clone for your lake.

They went with both, to try them against each other. The Lake design was actually pretty good, aside from the window and wheels. But, if I remember correctly, Holland won the contract. The Lake company did later build a number of submarines for the U.S. Navy during and after WW1.

@@zxjim Simon Lake's "Protector" was eventually commissioned by the Tsarist Russian Government. His earlier "Argonaut" and Argonaut Junior" weren't designed as warships, but for underwater exploration and salvage work.

baraxor That’s it. Thank you. I knew there was something about it.

Bruce Raykiewicz : Did you go to Don Bosco Tech?

@@vondumozze738 No sir. I attended St. John the Baptist Cathedral High school on Oliver St.Class of '61'.

Questionable claim

The IRA would like to have a word

@@mrwolf9335 tell that to my old man who hunted Russian subs for the entirety of the cold war.

Ha! Swedish navy embarrassed us navy with their subs

@@michaelthulin7207 and it was diesel electric 🤣 in the war games i think it breached the carrier group and sunk the carrier as much as 2 or 3 times too

The "Turtle" was the acorn-shaped sub shown and described in the video.

Other countries had them as well. I guess the video refers to the model that became the most relevant.

@@danielt.8573 more likely they made a mistake. the channel makes tons of errors all the time.

The difference is the Peral was all electric with no way recharge it's batteries while the Holland used a dual propulsion system allowing it to recharge it's batteries while under way so great expanding its operational usage . All modern non nuclear submarines follow the Holland model although Peral had quite a few design features which showed her designers forethought in the needs of this type of warfare.

It was quite an achievement for the time. However, it was not a useful submarine for naval purposes. It had no way to recharge its batteries. So, technically it was before this sub, the sub used by the South in the 1860s was actually 20 years earlier. The problem is, neither boat was useful by a navy. This boat was, and is the first useful naval submarine, capable of naval warfare.

The French also had electric submarines. The Holland VI was the first practical dual-propulsion submarine (in this case, internal combustion/electric); other submarines at the time were short-ranged pure electric. Holland's earlier "Plunger" was a steam/electric boat that was impractical.

The USS Milwaukee was not new but was newly out of a major overhaul. She wasn't escorting the subs. She was called to help pulled the grounded submarine USS H-3 off the beach, because of her horsepower, where she had grounded in a dense fog. A tug who was helping hold Milwaukee in position had fouled her propeller and had no way to notify the Milwaukee as to what had happened and Milwaukee carried by wind and current ran aground. There were other circumstances but that is the jist of it.

According to this USA one was not the first.

That was the Turtle and it was a one man submarine. It made an attack but never sank anything. You are getting the Turtle and Confederate Hunley story from the Civil War mixed together.

It is suggested that Turtle was a Victorian myth, too pretty 2 let go of.

@@jamesbugbee6812 The "Turtle" is shown in the video; it's an acorn-shaped sub carrying one person.

Hunley had a propeller cranked by the crew. It was shown in the video, and had a spar at the bow to "spear" ships with, the spar having an explosive charge on it.

The shockwave probably knocked the crew out. They were all found at their stations the the sub was salvaged. Her ballast tanks were open on the top to the inside of the submarine she may have flooded that way also.

The damn thing literally sank 6 times!

I went through boot camp in the summer of 1964 and now that you mention it I think you are right. I have no memory of them being talked about. A few weeks later while I was in "A" School a guy came into the class and asked if anyone wanted to volunteer. He said there was more money in subs. Making only $33.00 a paycheck every two weeks I said sign me up. That's how I got in subs.

Higgins had a real struggle getting the Navy to accept his design, the Bureau of Ships wanted to use its own design for an amphibious assault boat. The Marine Corps and men like LTG H. M. Smith of the United States Marine Corps championed Higgins and his boat. He had to take part in several competition before his design was accepted. Higgins did not get a single contract but several and for different products. He even had a contract to build airplanes at one point. The "rich" of New Orleans were never fans of Higgins since he was not a native of the city, so it is doubtful that they asked him anything about his profits. Higgins Industries were in financial trouble shortly after the war ended and were saved only through contracts during the Korean war. The University of New Orleans has many of Higgins Industries papers in its library's archives, if you should wish to research Andrew Jackson Higgins and his companies.

It's FENIAN, ya twat-rocket

You should look into the history of submarines. Holland was the FIRST to offer viable surface and submerged propulsion to the submarine. It became the template for the world in submarine design. Civil War Hunley had guys turning a big crank to turn the prop and burning up all their oxygen.

@@webbtrekker534 IT still wasnt the first submarine which he stated..sorry.

@@spec019 True there was Turtle.

Yes, it is on display, but, for how long?

Sure, spicoli