Photo #: NH 73932
Submarine Plunger
On a slipway circa the late 1890s, possibly while under construction
at the Columbian Iron Works, Baltimore, Maryland.
Plunger was built under an 1895 Navy contract with the
Holland Torpedo Boat Company but was not accepted for Naval service.
Note her triple propeller shafts.
This halftone reproduction was published in the "Journal
of the American Society of Naval Engineers", May 1938.
Courtesy of John C. Reilly, Jr.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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