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USS Plunger (1895)
USS ''Plunger'', ordered in 1895, was the first submarine built for the United States Navy, but she was never completed.
On 3 March 1893, the United States Congress authorized the first "submarine torpedo boat" to be built for the U.S. Navy. John P. Holland won a Navy design competition in 1895 to build it with his design for a submarine powered by a steam engine. The Navy ordered Holland's design as USS ''Plunger'', and awarded a contract for her construction to Holland's firm, the Holland Torpedo Boat Company, on 13 March 1895.
While building ''Plunger'', Holland concluded that steam power would never be suitable in a submarine, and he abandoned construction of ''Plunger'' in favor of the construction of another submarine, ''Holland'', powered by a gasoline engine, which he funded personally.〔''Conways All the Worlds Fighting Ships 1906-1921'', p. 127.〕
Accordingly, the Navy cancelled the contract for ''Plunger''s construction in April 1900. That same month, it purchased ''Holland'' and commissioned her as its first submarine, .
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