The United States Navy’s Submarine Force will observe its 100th anniversary in the year 2000. On a spring morning in the opening days of the 20th century the submarine boat USS Holland (SS 1) was accepted by the Navy after demonstration trials off Mt. Vernon on the Potomac River. The trials were held in the Potomac because the 54-foot Holland could not venture into the open sea. From its beginning, men of the submarine service have fought a strange kind of war, a war pitting technology against the power of the ocean depths.

via Submarine Saga