There is always a love for adventure in most men and the feelings must
be the highest in a land of pioneers, the United States; and this spirit
will naturally find its best expression in a situation where the unknown is
the highest - in the land filled with dark still sea waters. Americans have
had a historic association with the submarines and the fleet celebrated its
centenary in the year 2000, for which the preparations had been going on
for a long time. The first submarine of the country was accepted by the
Navy on a day in spring of the year 1900. This ship was known as the
submarine boat called USS Holland and is numbered as (SS 1). The acceptance
was of course after a lot of trials. These were so extensive that the
pioneer had to sell his shipyard to his battery supplier, and under the new
ownership the yard supplied a large number of ships to the navy. The
demonstration trials were held off Mount Vernon on the Potomac River. The
submarine was only 54 foot long and was incapable of going out into the
open sea. The spirit of the submariner has always had this strange ongoing
battle with the elements for superiority over nature, with the aid of
technology. (Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarines - SSBN)
This may be said to be the principle problem and reflected in the form
of improvement of underwater endurance and performance. This is more
determined by the ship than by the individual. In the beginning this caused
a lot of difficulties in the design of the submarine itself. The United
States is a relatively young country and the first record of submarine
activity is from the Nile Valley in Egypt. There we are able to see many
wall paintings that show people hunting ducks with spears for the birds.
They are not chasing them on land, but slowly moving up to them hidden in
the depths of...