USS Holland (Submarine Torpedo Boat # 1), 1900-1913

USS Holland, a 64-ton experimental submarine, was built at Elizabethport, New Jersey, to the design of submarine pioneer John P. Holland. Her construction was a private venture of the John P. Holland Torpedo Boat Company, and represented an alternative to the joint Navy-Holland venture that produced the unsuccessful submarine Plunger of 1895. Launched in mid-May 1897 and completed early in the following year, Holland ran extensive trials during 1898-1899, undergoing constant modification as experience was gained with her.

As a very interested party, the Navy followed the new submarine's activities closely and, in April 1900, purchased her with funds provided under an 1896 authorization. Placed in commission as USS Holland in October 1900, she was towed from Newport, Rhode Island, to the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. With the exception of some four months at Newport in mid-1901, she primarily operated in the Chesapeake Bay area on training and developmental duty for the rest of the decade, based initially at Annapolis and, after mid-1905, at Norfolk, Virginia.

Holland was always an experimental vessel, though she was the Navy's first reasonably satisfactory submarine and a great achievement in the development of undersea warfare. New submarines were soon produced that overcame many of her deficiencies, and by 1910 she was thoroughly obsolete. USS Holland was stricken from the Navy Register in November of that year and sold for scrapping in June 1913.

USS Adder (Submarine # 3, later SS-3), 1903-1922.
Later renamed A-2

USS Adder was a 107-ton Holland-type submarine built at Elizabethport, New Jersey. She was commissioned in January 1903 as the first of the seven Plunger (later A-1) class "boats" to enter service and spent much of the rest of that year on experimental duty at the Newport, Rhode Island, Torpedo Station. During 1904-1909, Adder was part of the Reserve Torpedo Flotilla, based at Norfolk, Virginia.

In July 1909 Adder and her sister submarine, Moccasin, were loaded aboard the collier Caesar to be carried to the Philippine Islands. Arriving at Manila Bay at the beginning of October, she was placed back in commission in February 1910 for service with the Asiatic Fleet. Adder was renamed A-2 in November 1911. For the rest of the decade she mainly operated in the Manila Bay and Subic Bay areas, performing training, experimental and, during World War I, patrol duties. Formally given the hull number SS-3 in July 1920, some two months later A-2 was assigned to target service. She was stricken from the Navy list and sunk as a target in mid-January 1922.

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USS E-2 (Submarine # 25, later SS-25), 1912-1922. Originally named Sturgeon

USS E-2, a 287-ton E-1 class coastal submarine built at Quincy, Massachusetts, was commissioned in February 1912. While under construction she was called Sturgeon, but was renamed in November 1911. Employed on experimental and training duties during her early service, E-2 operated in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico in January-April 1914, and in Florida waters in February-May 1915. Following a hydrogen explosion in January 1916 that killed four men and injured others, she was decommissioned and used for battery tests. E-2 returned to active service in March 1918 and conducted anti-U-Boat patrols off the U.S. East Coast during the rest of World War I. Again used for training after the conflict's end, the submarine was decommissioned in October 1921 and sold in April 1922.