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voor de liefhebbers van submarine design en plannen :)

A Concise History of US Navy Submarine Design
by Rik Nilsson

1900: First "Real" US Navy Submarine - Holland With all due respect to the "submerging" iron-clads and other predecessors, what has become known as the "fleet submarine" didn't
really have anything in common with designs developed prior to about 1870.
Out-performing designs by serious American and European competitors in a long and demanding engineering battle in the late 1800's, immigrant John Holland eventually sold the U.S. Navy the Holland VI for $150,000. The Navy subsequently ordered 6 more improved versions at $170,000 each from the holding company Holland was indebted to for financing his development. Electric Boat Company, primarily under the control of a
man named Rice, who owned the patent on the batteries (chloride accumulator) used for underwater propulsion, was to be the builder of the majority of U.S. submarines in the future...

Dank aan fjh voor het materiaal & Homing Device :)