The site was the first submarine base in this country, where U.S.S. Holland, the first submarine commissioned by the U.S. Navy, was based for trials. Between 1899 and 1905, six other submarines of the Holland Torpedo Boat Co. were also based here, when the site was known as the Holland Torpedo Boat Station. Naval maneuvers between submarines and the U.S.S. torpedo boat destroyer Winslow, known from the Spanish War, were held in these waters.

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