[2] Holland was inspired to work with submersibles after reading Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas published in 1870 and reading about the American Civil War battle between the ironclads Monitor and Merrimack.

Being born and raised in Liscannor on the North Atlantic Ocean and Limerick, a sea town on the River Shannon both in Ireland, Holland grew up with mariners life around him.

At Christian Brothers College, a science teacher persuaded him to pursue designs of a submarine in 1859.

Holland got a job at an engineering firm, then moved to teaching at St. John's Catholic School in Paterson, New Jersey, till 1881.

While at St. John's Catholic School, he designed a three-man submarine that he hoped the US Navy would what to build.

[3][4] Holland had meetings with the Fenian Brotherhood, an Irish republican organization that was founded in 1858 in the United States.

With the funds, Holland built at Todd & Raftery's shop at Paterson, New Jersey, a one-man submarine Boat No.

1 was 14 feet long, 2.25 tons, and was powered by a 4 HP Brayton internal combustion engine driving a single screw.

1, the Fenian Brotherhood, though John Devoy, funded deploying a weapon system submarine.

Holland left his teaching job at St. John's Catholic School and worked full-time on a new submarine.

The Fenian Ram - built at Delamater Iron Works in New York City - was launched in 1881 with a 9-inch (229 mm) pneumatic gun that fired forward out of her bow.

The US Navy looked at the Fenian Ram and Holland's 16 feet early design, but were not ready to buy.

[15] Others had bid on the Navy submarine contracts including: George Baker, Thorsten Nordenfelt and Josiah Tuck.

The Navy bought the Holland VI as it could travel underwater on batteries powering an electric motor that drove the propeller.

[20][21][22] In the process of raising private funding, Holland partnered with businessman Isaac Rice.

The Electric Boat Company's Washington DC legal counsel was Charles Creecy.

[26] Holland Torpedo Boat Station at Cutchogue Harbor was not designated a submarine base by the US Navy.

[27] The Electric Boat Company built HMS Holland 1 the first Royal Navy submarine.

torpedo boat destroyer "Winslow" of the Spanish War fame were held in these waters."

At the October 11, 1976 ceremony was, Chief Willard Clewall Sr., a retired Navy officer and a veteran that was a crew member on a Holland submarine in 1908.

In Liscannor, Ireland a commemorating plaque was built in 1964, the city placed it there on the 50th anniversary of Holland's death.

In New Suffolk, Long Island, on April 8, 2000, a new Holland monument was dedicated to the first US Submarine Base, US Navy Submarine Veterans place the monument at the site of the Holland Torpedo Boat Station.

[36] Some pre-war submarines were used in World War II and some were recommissioned and put into service due to the high demand.

[37] Under General Dynamics, a series of nuclear-powered submarines were built, starting with the first the USS Nautilus (SSN-571).