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• US NAVY SUBMARINE SERIES

Next came a group of prosaically named classes, starting with the letter B in 1905 (the Plunger-class boats would be renamed as A-class in 1911), and ending with the letter S, built between 1917-1922. Plunger-class boats were the first with a reloadable torpedo tube and a deck gun, and they had ballast and trim tanks which allowed them to make precise changes in depth and attitude underwater. These boats had both an internal combustion engine for use on the surface, and an electric motor for use underwater. This was the first commissioned submarine in the US Navy. Seven more of the boats were commissioned and built by Holland for the Plunger-class, which was later renamed the A-class, and they served primarily as training and experimental vessels. Navy commissioned the first Holland submarine, built by the Holland Torpedo Boat Company. Originally, Alligator was powered by sixteen hand-powered paddles that protruded from her sides, but these were replaced by a hand-cranked propeller which got her up to four knots (7.4 km per hour).īy 1896, the U.S. Air was supplied from the surface by two tubes connected to an air pump inside the submarine. The USS Aligator was made of iron and was 47 feet (14 m) long and had a beam of 4 feet 8 inches (1.42 m). In April, 1863, Alligator was being towed toward Charleston, South Carolina when she was lost in bad weather off of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. She was built during the Civil War, and her main purpose was to protect the Union's fleet of wooden ships against the Confederacy's ironclad frigate Merrimack, and she first set sail in 1861. Next came the Alligator-class, of which only one boat was made.

Alligator-class submarine Source: Wikimedia Commons None of Turtle's attempts were successful.

submarine, the USS Turtle, was built to attach explosive charges to the hulls of British ships during America's War of Independence. 1775 to 1937 Turtle replica on display at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum Source: Geni/Wikimedia Commons Just be aware that submarines are always referred to as boats and never as ships. Navy's submarine classes throughout the years. Below, we're going to take a look at some of the U.S.

US NAVY SUBMARINE SERIES

submarines? A "class" is a single design that is used for a number of submarines, with later boats in the series often having improvements. What is a Los Angeles-class submarine, and what are the various "classes" of U.S.