| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | Holland |
| Fate: | Foundered 3rd September 1912. Raised 1914 and expended as target. |
| Length overall | 63 ft 10 inch |
| Beam | 11 ft 9 inch |
| Displacement | 113 tons (surface) |
| 122 tons (submerged) | |
| Propulsion | Petrol engine, 160 hp |
| Electric motor, 74 hp | |
| No. of shafts | 1 |
| Propeller | 3 blades, 6ft diameter |
| Diving Depth | 100 ft |
| Speed | Surface 8 knots (design) |
| Surface 7.4 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 7 knots (design) | |
| Submerged 6 knots (service) | |
| Endurance | Surface: 355 miles (design) |
| Surface: 235 miles (service) | |
| Submerged: 20 miles at 5 knots | |
| Armament | 1 x 18 inch bow torpedo tube (three torpedoes carried) |
| Complement | 8 |
| Class: | 1936 - 1958: U Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Tyne) |
| Build Group: | U2 |
| Fate: | |
| Scrapped in June 1946 at Milford Haven. | |
The year 2001 records the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Submarine Service, and Antony Preston presents a day-by-day account of life in the service. In 1901, Holland One, the Royal Navy's first submarine, fitted with a single torpedo tube, was born at Vickers-Armstrong amidst great controversy, in an era when the submarine was regarded as the weapon of the weaker power
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| Length overall | 63 ft 10 inch |
| Beam | 11 ft 9 inch |
| Displacement | 113 tons (surface) |
| 122 tons (submerged) | |
| Propulsion | Petrol engine, 160 hp |
| Electric motor, 74 hp | |
| No. of shafts | 1 |
| Propeller | 3 blades, 6ft diameter |
| Diving Depth | 100 ft |
| Speed | Surface 8 knots (design) |
| Surface 7.4 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 7 knots (design) | |
| Submerged 6 knots (service) | |
| Endurance | Surface: 355 miles (design) |
| Surface: 235 miles (service) | |
| Submerged: 20 miles at 5 knots | |
| Armament | 1 x 18 inch bow torpedo tube (three torpedoes carried) |
| Complement | 8 |
| Class: | 1936 - 1958: U Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Tyne) |
| Build Group: | U2 |
| Fate: | |
| Scrapped in June 1946 at Milford Haven. | |
The year 2001 records the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Submarine Service, and Antony Preston presents a day-by-day account of life in the service. In 1901, Holland One, the Royal Navy's first submarine, fitted with a single torpedo tube, was born at Vickers-Armstrong amidst great controversy, in an era when the submarine was regarded as the weapon of the weaker power
13 pages added or updated in the last 2 month
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