Built in 1901, this tiny submersible was the Royal Navy’s first submarine and formed part of the "First Submarine Flotilla" based in Portsmouth Harbour. In her life she was both blown up and sunk, but now she rests peacefully at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum in Gosport.
For more information: http://www.submarine-museum.co.uk/museum-collections/our-submarines/holland-1
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Portsmouth, Hampshire has an extraordinary past. During every era it has been at the forefront of events that have affected the course of not only national but often international history. Alongside this, on a smaller scale, there are the every day stories of the many differing peoples who have spent their lives here and took part in these historic events.
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