Holland1 Submarine 1902 - 1913 (work-in-progress)

Please read these notes.
This is the first stage of my project to model and animate the British Holland 1 submarine. It is a work-in-progress animation, and will be updated after further research.
In 1900 the British shipbuilder, Vickers, purchased a licence from the Electric Boat Company of the United States to build 5 Holland design submarines for the Royal Navy. These became Holland numbers 1 to 5. They were very similar to the US Adder class submarines. They were 64 ft in length, nearly 12 ft in diameter and displaced 110 tons. Propulsion was provided by a 160 HP petrol (gasoline) engine giving 8 knots when surfaced, and a 70 HP electric motor giving 7 knots when dived. Each submarine had a single tube to launch an 18 inch torpedo, with up to 2 reloads. The Holland submarines were used to assess the capabilities of submarines for attacking and also to work out anti-submarine tactics.
The Hollands were very limited in their capabilities and soon were superseded by larger Vickers designs.
Holland 5 was lost at sea in 1912. Holland 4 was used as a gunnery target while the other three were sold for scrap in 1913.
In November 1913, the obsolete submarine Holland 1 was being towed to a scrapyard when it foundered off the Eddystone lighthouse in the English Channel. She was salvaged in 1982 and underwent several years of treatment to counteract corrosion. She is now housed at the Royal Naval Submarine Museum at Gosport, England.
A 4-cylinder 160 HP gasoline (petrol) engine similar to that installed in the U.S. Adder submarines, but build by the Wolsley company in the UK, and an electric (shunt-wound) electric motor, which I understand was bought from the Electric Boat Company.
The petrol engine was started using the electric motor. There are three clutches to be engaged for the engine to drive the propeller. The one nearest the engine is a friction clutch - this can be engaged or disengaged while the engine is running. However the other two are dog clutches that can only safely be engaged when the shaft is stopped.
So the sequence is.
1. engage friction clutch
2. rotate the engine crank shaft (by hand) until the other two dog clutches can be engaged
3. start up the electric motor, which then cranks the engine
4. I have a concern now - there is a risk that sea water could leak past the (soot encrusted) exhaust valves when dived or the engine is stopped on the surface. Water in the cylinder is incompressible, so the either the cranking would stall or, worse, the compression stroke could crack a cylinder head. So there should be some relief valve that could be opened, or a mechanism to lift all the exhaust valves, regardless of the valve cam position before cranking begins, to blow out any water.
5. Once the electric motor has the engine spinning nicely, turn on the fuel and then turn on the ignition - and hopefully the engine will fire.
6. Current to the electric motor can then be switched off.
Acknowledgement:
My thanks to the Library of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth
References
Drawings - John Lambert
‘The Evolution of the Submarine Boat Mine and Torpedo’, Commander Murray F Sueter RN, 1907
Torpedo Manual Vol III, 1909

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Thankyou for the graphic; I have wanted to have an in depth look at the Holland 1 for decades.

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Beautifully made, the explanation of the technique, the colours used, the incredible detail, wonderfull! The Holland1 was always one of my favorites. A perfect mix between a very modern submarine and the most original idea; the Nautilus of Jules Verne. Thank you very much.

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Sophisticated and even had safety features.

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But no periscope?

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Periscope will be fitted in the next release

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Ah, that's how the torpedo engine turned on, when it launched the torpedo out of the tube. Thank you.

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Opening the bow torpedo door must slbeen an absolute pain. Considering you're turning that wheel above your head. Can you imagine doing that in a stressed out situation.

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The bow cap was opened and closed by an air driven motor, controlled by a lever above the screw spindle. 1:41

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The same dynamo was used for starting the engine and for propulsion?

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Cool video. You misspell *"propeller"* in both the video and the description. I wasn't able to find any a meaning for the word "propellor." (I thought it might be one of those words which are spelt differently in different parts of the world, but no. Only "propeller" is correct.) You might want to fix this in your next update. It was really cool to see the way the torpedo doors opened. Thanks for sharing the video.

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So was she only a test vehicle, or were subs like her expected to be used in combat? Because a single torpedo tube seems kind of weak. Once a torpedo has been fired, the crew has to load a second one immediately. So, in a combat situation, the crew would need to launch what they have in the tube then scram if they miss.

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The Holland submarines were prototypes - the Royal Navy wanted to learn what a submarine could do - could it be controlled? could it approach ship underweight without being detected? could it actually fire a torpedo accurately? how would a surface warship counter it?

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I see storage for two torps outside the tube.

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Как они прицеливались? На лодке не было перископа?

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Periscope will be fitted in the next release

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Are you going to do the Hunley?

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Great! I wonder what the purpose of having two dog clutches is. I don't see what they allow that a single would not allow.

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To charge the battery without spinning the propellers?

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@@5Cats isn't enough with just one dog clutch? Open it to disconnect the propeller, close the main clutch to spin de dinamo.

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The machinery can be operated in 3 modes: a. Engine driving the propeller directly - main clutch and both dog clutches b. electric motor driving the propeller - the engine main clutch disengaged and both dog clutches engaged c. Engine driving the motor as a generator - so main clutch and first dog clutch engaged, but propeller disengaged. This would be the configuration when charging the battery in harbour. Don’t want the propeller rotating while alongside.

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​@@vbbsmytbut both dog clutches are placed *after* the electric motor. They're both between the motor and the propeller and there's nothing, just the axle, between them.

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I mean if you just welded the aft dog clutch closed all a b and c would work.

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Only a day old. No wonder there's no Spaniards here claiming Peral invented the submarine (which he didn't), or anyone claiming Van Drebbel invented it (which he also didn't).

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Holland dream't of the Irish Fenian brotherhood taking on the Royal navy with his submarines, as things turned out he lost control of his company and the Royal navy purchased a number of them, they later manufactured variants under a licencing agreement.

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just a bit bigger than a coffin.

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And the design turned like a boat for more than 3 decades🤦

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Gasoline engine in a sub = death trap.

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