HMS Holland 1

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Holland 1 (or HM submarine Torpedo Boat No 1) is the first submarine owned by the Royal Navy. The first in a five-boat batch of the Holland-class submarine, launched in 1901, she was lost twelve years later 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. The battery bank found in the boat was discovered to be functional after being cleaned and recharged. The first three officers of the Royal Navy to enter the embryonic Submarine Service were appointed on the 20th August 1901. Lieutenant Stephen Bowle-Evans (Navigator), Lieutenant Forster Delafield Arnold-Forster (Torpedo) and Captain Reginald Hugh Spencer Bacon (Inspecting Officer). They were shortly thereafter joined by Lieutenant John Alfred Moreton in early October 1901. Each of these officers served, in varying roles, on the crew of HMS Holland 1, making them the Royal Navy's first Submarine Service officers. HMS Holland 1 remained...

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