A School Teacher and Irish Patriot named John P. Holland, embarks on the most important voyage of his life.
In fact this was the birth of the naval revolution because this brave man was about to attempt…
The first sail with a submersible ship in history… on the waters of the Passaic River in New Jersey…
No one would pin faith on that because at that time it seemed like another silly highbrow goal…But still thousands of people gathered to witness the event…
Holland was confident that he could wing it…and he was sure he could rely on his invention…
So there goes nothing…
John P. Holland squeezes himself into a cramped space just 3 feet by 3 feet by 2 feet and...He cuts and runs…
But Holland should have stayed in bed...
Because the boat almost instantly sinks to the river bottom and has to be pulled up to the surface.
The Press Was Unforgiving...
“One paper congratulates him on getting the boat immediately to the bottom…without even the assistance of a captain. “
The sinking worries Holland…he needs to keep his financial Irish backers happy.
Not about to give up…he repairs a leak in his sub and launches again.
This time the boat goes down… and then comes up.
The race for the perfect sub suddenly becomes the bee in Holland’s bonnet.
He keeps trying to make new and improved models…
After a falling out with his Irish backers he turns to his adoptive country for support.
But the US Government tries to ride herd on his designs… and the frustrated Holland goes back to work for himself.
After more than 20 year of financial struggle, public ridicule and frustrating dead ends comes Holland’s breakthrough.
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