Join me for a trip inside #Holland1 ( HM submarine Torpedo Boat No 1) It is the first submarine commissioned by the Royal Navy. The first in a six-boat batch of the Holland-class submarine, she was lost in 1913 while under tow to be scrapped following her decommissioning. Recovered in 1982, she was put on display at the Royal Navy #submarine Museum, #Gosport. Her battery bank found in the boat was discovered to be functional after being cleaned and recharged! Holland 1 was ordered in 1901 from John Philip Holland and built at Barrow-in-Furness. Her keel was laid down 4th February 1901. In order to keep the boat’s construction secret, she was assembled in a building labelled "Yacht Shed", and the parts that had to be fabricated in the general yard were marked for "pontoon no 1". She was launched on 2 October 1901 and dived for the first time around 20th March 1902. Sea trials began in April 1902. In September 1902 she arrived at Portsmouth, along with the other completed Holland boat and their tender, HMS Hazard. Together they made up the "First Submarine Flotilla", commanded by Captain Reginald Bacon. Holland 1 suffered an explosion on 3rd March 1903 that caused four injuries. On 24 October 1904, with the rest of the Holland fleet and three A-class boats, Holland 1 sailed from Portsmouth to attack a Russian fleet that had mistakenly sunk a number of British fishing vessels in the North Sea in the Dogger Bank incident. The boats were recalled before any attack could take place. The submarine was decommissioned and sold in 1913 to Thos. W. Ward for £400. By the time the submarine was sold, she was considered so obsolete that she was sold with all fittings intact, and the only requirement put on the purchaser was that the torpedo tube is put out of action.