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British V-class submarines (1914) (2 P) Pages in category "World War I submarines of the United Kingdom" The following 188 pages are in this category, out of 188 total.
HMS Holland 1, the first submarine to serve in the Royal Navy A-class submarines, the first British-designed class. Holland class. Holland 1, launched: 2 October 1901, decommissioned: 5 November 1913
The E class served with the Royal Navy throughout World War I as the backbone of the submarine fleet. The last surviving E class submarines were withdrawn from service by 1922. All of the first group and some of the second group of the class were completed before the outbreak of World War I. The group 1 boats cost £101,900 per hull.
A British submarine flotilla operated in the Baltic Sea for three years during the First World War. [1] The squadron of nine submarines was attached to the Russian Baltic Fleet . The main task of the flotilla was to prevent the import of iron ore from Sweden to Imperial Germany .
Observer's Directory of Royal Naval Submarines 1901–1982, ISBN 0723229643, Frederick Warne, London. Everitt, Don (1999). K Boats: Steam-Powered Submarines in World War I. Airlife Publishing. ISBN 1-84037-057-2. Everitt, Don (1963). The K Boats. London: George Harrap. Preston, Antony (2002). World's Worst Warships. Conway's Maritime Press.
Internally, the submarine featured ten watertight bulkheads, significantly more than the two present on the British E-class submarine. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The inner hull varied in height between 2.01 metres (6 ft 7 in) and 2.11 metres (6 ft 11 in), though a false floor was installed in the control room to make it 1.93 metres (6 ft 4 in).
The British Royal Navy M-class submarines were a small class of diesel-electric submarines built during World War I. The unique feature of the class design was a 12-inch (305 mm) gun mounted in a casemate forward of the conning tower .
The B-class was a class of 11 submarines, built by Vickers in Barrow-in-Furness for the Royal Navy, and launched in 1904–06.One boat was sunk by a collision in 1912, but the remainder served in World War I.