| 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 |
It is indeed a far cry from Blyth on the east coast of England to Kimberley in Griqualand West, South Africa, and a long span of time, over sixty-two years, since I was a boy-telegraphist (wireless operator) serving on HM Submarine J3 part of the tenth submarine flotilla stationed at Blyth.
It was on a difficult and dangerous line-laying mission in the Kattegat that H.M. Submarine Seal was involved in one of the strangest, most frightening, and most heroically stirring episodes of the Second World War.
This is the full story, based on eyewitness accounts and official records, and told in dramatic detail by authors who were themselves submariners.
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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 |
It is indeed a far cry from Blyth on the east coast of England to Kimberley in Griqualand West, South Africa, and a long span of time, over sixty-two years, since I was a boy-telegraphist (wireless operator) serving on HM Submarine J3 part of the tenth submarine flotilla stationed at Blyth.
It was on a difficult and dangerous line-laying mission in the Kattegat that H.M. Submarine Seal was involved in one of the strangest, most frightening, and most heroically stirring episodes of the Second World War.
This is the full story, based on eyewitness accounts and official records, and told in dramatic detail by authors who were themselves submariners.
12 pages added or updated in the last 2 month
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