Foundered 7 October 1913

HMS HOLLAND I,BUILT BY VICKERS,LAUNCHED 2/10/1901. SOLD 7/10/1913, FOUNDERED ON PASSAGE FROM PORTSMOUTH FOR BREAKING UP AT BRITON FERRY. RAISED 9/1982 AND PRESERVED AT GOSPORT SUBMARINE MUSEUM.

1901 - The Royal Navy's First Submarine. The company was awarded the contract for the Royal Navy's first five submarines built to the latest design from the Irish-American John P Holland. The first submarine (officially Her Majesty's Submarine Torpedo Boat No.1 but not named at launch and usually referred to as Holland 1) was built with every secrecy at Barrow and launched 'as an experiment' without ceremony on October 2nd 1901.

Postally used 7 Sep 1908
Postcard series: Tuck's, Oilette - Our Ironclads
Series number: IV
Postcard number: 9109

Postally used 26 Feb 1905. One of a series of postacrds sent to Miss Jones. On this postcard, the sender had wrongly assumed this was the submarine that was sunk in 1904. In fact that was HM Submarine A1, and the ship that rammed it during excercise was the Berwick Castle, not the Bavarian.
Postcard series: Valentine's, Valentine's Naval Series