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1914, October 18 – German submarine U-27 sinks HMS E3 in the first ever successful attack on one submarine by another. 1914, October 20 – German submarine U-17 sinks SS Glitra in the first submarine sinking of a merchant ship during the world wars. [1] 1915, May 7 – German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania killing 1,198 and leaving 761 ...
The French-designed 1862 Alligator, first submarine of the U.S. Navy. During the American Civil War, the Union was the first to field a submarine. The French-designed Alligator was the first U.S. Navy sub and the first to feature compressed air (for air supply) and an air filtration system. It was the first submarine to carry a diver lock ...
John Philip Holland (Irish: Seán Pilib Ó hUallacháin/Ó Maolchalann [citation needed]; February 24, 1841 [1] – August 12, 1914 [2]) was an Irish marine engineer who developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the US Navy, and the first Royal Navy submarine, Holland 1.
The Type UB I submarine (sometimes known as the UB-1 class [1]) was a class of small coastal submarines built in Germany at the beginning of the First World War.Twenty boats were constructed, most of which went into service with the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) Boats of this design were also operated by the Austro-Hungarian Navy (Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine or K.u.K ...
Prototype "fleet submarines"—submarines fast enough (21 knots (11 m/s)) to travel with battleships. Twice the size of any concurrent or past U.S. submarine. A poor tandem engine design caused the boats to be decommissioned by 1923 and scrapped in 1930.
HMS Holland 1, the first submarine to serve in the Royal Navy A-class submarines, the first British-designed class. Holland class. Holland 1, launched: 2 October 1901, decommissioned: 5 November 1913
Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière commanded U-139, the first of the class, and named the submarine Kapitänleutnant Schweiger, after Walther Schwieger, who had sunk RMS Lusitania in 1915. Under von Arnauld, U-139 sank four ships from May 1918, and sank the last ship to fall to a Type 139 U-boat in World War I on 14 October 1918 the NRP Augusto ...
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