USS Plunger (SS-2)
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Plunger in 1902
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| Name: | USS Plunger |
| Namesake: | Plunger, a diver or daring gambler |
| Builder: | Crescent Shipyard, Elizabeth, New Jersey |
| Laid down: | 21 May 1901 |
| Launched: | 1 February 1902 |
| Commissioned: | 19 September 1903 |
| Decommissioned: | 3 November 1905 |
| Recommissioned: | 23 February 1907 |
| Struck: | 24 February 1913 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrapping 26 January 1922 |
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| Class and type: | Plunger-class submarine |
| Displacement: | 107 long tons (109 t) |
| Length: | 64 ft (20 m) |
| Beam: | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
| Draft: | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
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| Complement: | 7 |
| Armament: | 1 × 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tube |
USS Plunger SS-2 was one of the earliest submarines of the United States Navy. She was the lead boat of her class and was later renamed A-1 when she was designated an A-type submarine. She is not to be confused with the experimental submarine Plunger which was evaluated by the U.S. Navy from 1898 to 1900.
Plunger was originally laid down on 21 May 1901 at Elizabethport, New Jersey, at Lewis Nixon's Crescent Shipyard. Arthur Leopold Busch supervised the construction of the A-Class submarines built there. The prototype Fulton experimental craft was laid down at Isaac Rice's Electric Boat Company prior to these first A-class submarines.
She was launched on 1 February 1902, and commissioned at the Holland Torpedo Boat Company yard at New Suffolk, New York on 19 September 1903.
Assigned to the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport, Rhode Island for experimental torpedo work, Plunger operated locally from that facility for the next two years, a period of time broken only by an overhaul at the Holland yard at New Suffolk from March–November 1904. Besides testing machinery, armament and tactics, the submarine torpedo boat also served as a training ship for the crews of new submersibles emerging from the builder's yards.
In August 1905, Plunger underwent two weeks of upkeep before leaving the yard on 22 August. She was towed by the tug Apache to New York City, where Plunger conducted trials near the home of President Theodore Roosevelt. Upon the submarine's arrival that afternoon, she moored alongside the tug and prepared for a visit from President Theodore Roosevelt.
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