Liscannor Man John Holland, Inventor of the Submarine Dies 1914

#OnThisDay 1914 John Philip Holland, a teacher from Liscannor, Clare & the inventor of the first modern submarine passed away in New Jersey. In 1900 both the US Navy & the Royal Navy commissioned his design & named their first submarine “Holland”.

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