USS Plunger (1895)

Plunger while under construction at the Columbian Iron Works, Baltimore, Maryland
History
United States
Name	USS Plunger - (Holland V)
Namesake	Plunger, a diver or daring gambler
Ordered	13 March 1895
Builder	Holland Torpedo Boat Company
Launched	7 August 1897
Commissioned	Never
Fate	Cancelled April 1900 prior to completion, scrapped in 1917
General characteristics
Type	Submarine
Displacement	149 tons (nominal) 168 tons submerged
Length	85 ft 3 in (25.98 m)
Beam	11 ft 6 in (3.51 m)
Draft	11 ft (3.4 m)
Propulsion	Steam engine
Speed	15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) surfaced 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) submerged
Complement	7
Armament	2 × 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes

USS Plunger was an experimental submarine built for the United States Navy. She was ordered in 1895 and launched in 1897, but was never commissioned for active service. She is not to be confused with the later USS Plunger (SS-2), a.k.a. A-1, which served in the Navy from 1903 to 1913.