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Hazard 1901 - 1918

Built By: Pembroke Dockyard
Build Group: Hazard
Fate: On 28 January 1918 she collided with the hospital ship SS Western Australia in the English Channel and sank. The wreck sits upside down in two parts and various parts are missing having been salvaged. The wreck's location in a busy shipping channel makes it an unpopular target for divers.
Hazard 1894
Hazard 1894

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The sixth HMS Hazard was a Dryad-class torpedo gunboat. She was launched in 1894 and was converted into the world's first submarine depot ship in 1901. The only ship of her class to be so converted. She was commissioned 20 August 1901 with a complement of 94 officers and men, her first captain in the new role was Captain Reginald Bacon, who held the post of "Inspecting Captain of submarine boats".

She was despatched to Barrow-in-Furness to take up her new task. In the summer of 1902 Hazard led a group consisting of HM Submarines No 2 and No 3, and Torpedo Boat N.42 to Portsmouth, where, together with submarines No 1, No 4 and No 5, they formed the First Submarine Flotilla.

In August 1914 Hazard was serving as the depot for the Fourth Submarine Flotilla.

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Distribution of RN Submarines WW1

The British Fleet at the moment when war was declared possessed 72 submarine torpedo-boats built and 22 building. Some of these were, however, stationed at the oversea naval bases.

A 3

A Class Submarine. Rammed and sunk by the HMS Hazard on 2nd February 1912.

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.

Events

 19-08-1902   Took part in the fleet review held at Spithead for the coronation of King Edward VII.
 02-02-1912   Under the command of Lieutenant Charles J C Little, Hazard collided with the submerged submarine A3. The submarine was in the process of surfacing during exercises when she was struck; the stricken submarine sank with the loss of all 14 personnel on board.
Hazard Specification
Tonnage  1070 tons
Length  262ft 6in
Beam  30ft 6in
Draught  13ft
Installed power  3,500 ihp
Propulsion  2 x3-cylinder vertical triple-expansion steam engines
  Locomotive boilers
  Twin screws
Speed  18.2 kn
Complement  120
Armament  2 x QF 4.7-inch guns
  4 x 6-pounder
  1 x Nordenfelt machine gun
  5 x 18-inch torpedo tubes
  On conversion to a minesweeper in 1914 two torpedo tubes were removed
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