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On Monday, 17 May 1897, the late edition of The New York Times carried a masterpiece of cautious reporting in its account of a ship launching earlier that day: . . . the Holland, the little cigar-shaped vessel owned by her inventor, which may or may not play an important part in the navies of the world in the years to come, was launched from Lewis Nixon's shipyard this morning.
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submarine navigation, petroleum engine, submarine torpedo boat, superintending engineer, running submerged, submarine boats, underwater craft, boat company, underwater boats, dynamite gun, mechanical flight, submarine development, second submarine, little submarine, dredging company, diving planes, pneumatic gun, mate second class, modern submarine, positive buoyancy, submarine design, first submarine, conning tower
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John Holland, United States, New York, Fenian Ram, Navy Department, John Philip Holland, Electric Boat Company, Skirmishing Fund, Holland Torpedo Boat Company, Simon Lake, Christian Brothers, New Suffolk, Isaac Rice, Lewis Nixon, Secretary of the Navy, Zalinski Boat, Frank Cable, John Devoy, New Jersey, Charles Morris, O'Donovan Rossa, Bay Ridge, Lieutenant Commander, Passaic River, Long Island
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