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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
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.
First submarines of the Royal Navy A class: 13 HMS A1 19 February 1902 HMS A13 22 June 1908 Royal Navy's first class of British-designed submarines B class: 11 HMS B1 25 October 1904 HMS B11 1906 C class: 38 HMS C1 13 November 1905 HMS C38 10 February 1910 Last class of petrol powered submarines of the Royal Navy
Model of an E-class submarine Interior of an E-class submarine, possibly E34 12-pounder gun of an E-class submarine. The British E-class submarines started out as improved versions of the British D-class submarine. The E class served with the Royal Navy throughout World War I as the backbone of the submarine fleet. The last surviving E class ...
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 R-class submarines were a class of 12 small British diesel-electric submarines built for the Royal Navy during World War I, and were forerunners of the modern attack submarine, in that they were designed specifically to attack and sink enemy submarines, their battery capacity and hull shape being optimized for underwater performance.
Three of these boats were destroyed (along with the British E-class submarines E1, E8, E9, E19) outside Helsinki in 1918 to prevent capture by German troops of the Baltic Sea Division who had landed nearby. [1] HMS C15 torpedoed and sank the German submarine UC-65 in 1917. C24 sank U-40 on 23 June 1915 in the first successful use of the Q ship ...
The early British E-class submarines, from E1 to E8, had a displacement of 652 long tons (662 t) at the surface and 795 long tons (808 t) while submerged.They had a length overall of 180 feet (55 m) and a beam of 22 feet 8.5 inches (6.922 m), and were powered by two 800 horsepower (600 kW) Vickers eight-cylinder two-stroke diesel engines and two 420 horsepower (310 kW) electric motors.