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USS ''Plunger'' SS-2 was one of the earliest submarines of the United States Navy. She was the lead boat of the her class and was later renamed ''A-1'' when she was designated an A-type submarine. == Early service == ''Plunger'' was originally laid down on 21 May 1901 at Elizabethport, New Jersey, at Lewis Nixon's Crescent Shipyard. Arthur Leopold Busch supervised the construction of the A-Class submarines built there. The prototype Fulton experimental craft was laid down at Isaac Rice's Electric Boat Company prior to these first ''A''-class submarines. She was launched on 1 February 1902, and commissioned at the Holland Torpedo Boat Company yard at New Suffolk, New York on 19 September 1903. Assigned to the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport, Rhode Island for experimental torpedo work, ''Plunger'' operated locally from that facility for the next two years, a period of time broken only by an overhaul at the Holland yard at New Suffolk from March–November 1904. Besides testing machinery, armament and tactics, the submarine torpedo boat also served as a training ship for the crews of new submersibles emerging from the builder's yards. In August 1905, ''Plunger'' underwent two weeks of upkeep before leaving the yard on 22 August. She was towed by the tug to New York, where ''Plunger'' conducted trials near the home of President Theodore Roosevelt. Upon the submarine's arrival that afternoon, she moored alongside the tug and prepared for a visit from President Theodore Roosevelt. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「USS Plunger (SS-2)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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