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A3

Built By: Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group: A1
Fate: Rammed and sunk by the HMS Hazard (The original Submarine Tender), off the Isle of Wight on 2nd February 1912.

Raised and used as target and sunk on 17th May 1912.
A3 depicted on an early postcard
A3
A3
A3 in 1903

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Commanders

HMS Mercury, Portsmouth

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1901 - 1918: Hazard

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The Loss of Submarine A3

Submarine A3 was sunk as a result of a collision with HMS Hazard on 2nd Feb 1912 during trials in the Solent. All members of the crew were lost. The Submarine was raised and the bodies of the crew recovered. They were buried, later, in the Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery.

Roll of Honour
14
Died: 02-02-1912
Armstrong, Charles Elliott  M 277
Engine Room Artificer Died: 02-02-1912 Aged: 39
Barden, William Thomas  206027
Able Seaman Died: 02-02-1912 Aged: 27
Campbell, Donald Patrick Colin 
Lieutenant Died: 02-02-1912 Aged: 23
Compton, Edwin Frank  228021
Able Seaman Died: 02-02-1912 Aged: 24
Farr, Charles  193220
Leading Seaman Died: 02-02-1912 Aged: 31
Fowler, George Herbert  302987
Stoker 1st Class Died: 02-02-1912 Aged: 29
Gent, Arnold William  295847
Stoker 1st Class Died: 02-02-1912 Aged: 30
Good, Arthur Ernest  269500
Engine Room Artificer Died: 02-02-1912 Aged: 38
Kelly, Parker  205230
Able Seaman Died: 02-02-1912 Aged: 26
Ormand, Frank Thompson 
Lieutenant Died: 02-02-1912 Aged: 28
Page, Charles George  219763
Able Seaman Died: 02-02-1912 Aged: 26
Richardson, Leonard Faber 
Lieutenant Died: 02-02-1912 Aged: 22
Thornton, Ernest James Vernon 
Lieutenant Died: 02-02-1912 Aged: 21
Wilder, George  166859
Petty Officer 1st Class Died: 02-02-1912 Aged: 36

Events

06-11-1902 Laid Down
09-03-1903 Launched
13-07-1904 Completed
02-02-1912 Sank off Isle of Wight after collision with HMS Hazard

The Commander-in-Chief regrets to announce that owing to a collision between His Majesty's Ship Hazard and the submarine A3, the latter sank near East Princess Buoy about noon today. It is feared that the submarine was completely flooded, in which case there is very little hope of the officers and crew being saved, though salvage appliances have been sent out.

Whilst on exercise off the Isle of Wight HMS A3 surfaced directly in the path of HMS Hazard. The collision caused a large hole to be torn in the side of the submarine sinking her almost immediately.
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