| 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. |
HMS Mercury, Portsmouth
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 |
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| Armstrong, Charles Elliott |
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| Barden, William Thomas |
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| Campbell, Donald Patrick Colin |
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| Compton, Edwin Frank |
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| Farr, Charles |
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| Fowler, George Herbert |
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| Gent, Arnold William |
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| Good, Arthur Ernest |
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| Kelly, Parker |
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| Ormand, Frank Thompson |
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| Page, Charles George |
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| Richardson, Leonard Faber |
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| Thornton, Ernest James Vernon |
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| Wilder, George |
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| 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. |
| 17-05-1912 | Raised and used as target and sunk |
| Class: | 1925 - 1946: Odin Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | O2 |
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| Scrapped in September 1946 at Durban. | |
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| Class: | 1925 - 1946: Odin Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | O2 |
| Fate: | |
| Scrapped in September 1946 at Durban. | |
For many years submariners produced local newspapers, reporting from the deep with a unique take on their unusual lifestyle. Held in much affection by submarine crews, they enjoyed a long period of popularity from the 1970s-1990s for their irreverent and decidedly un-PC approach to underwater living.
In this entertaining book, author Keith Hall examines the development of this strange branch of underwater journalism, collating the articles and anecdotes, jokes cartoons and stories that have been published over the years to brighten up the lives of submariners far from home, providing an insight into the bizarre self-contained world of the submariner.
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