2017-03-14- Winter Speaker Event - "A History of Submarine Warfare Along the Jersey Shore"
The
ingenious people of the Garden State were instrumental in the early
development of the submarine. The first American submarine sank off
Fort Lee in 1776, and the first successful one adopted by the U.S.
Navy was invented by Paterson’s John Holland at the end of the
nineteenth century. Those early vessels were tested in the Passaic
River and on the Jersey City waterfront. Today, the only surviving
Union Civil War submarine, built in Newark, sits in the National
Guard Militia Museum in Sea Girt. In 1918, the technology pioneered
there was turned against the Jersey Shore when U-151 went on a
one-day ship-sinking rampage. A World War II U-boat offensive
torpedoed numerous ships off the coast, leaving oil-soaked beaches
strewn with wreckage. of 19th century baseball as it was played here
in Monmouth County.
Author
Joseph G. Bilby reveals the remarkable history of submarines off the
New Jersey coastline.
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