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B 8 (I 28)

Built By: Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group: B
Fate: Converted to Surface Patrol Craft and renamed 'S8' for service on the Otranto Barrage.

Sold for breaking in 1919.
B8
B8

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Commanders
1913: Lieutenant   Eric Erskine Campbell Tufnell

1914: At Gibraltar
Adriatic Squadron, 1915. Marco Polo, Venice.

Served in the Mediterranean and was also sent to Venice.

In 1916 B8 was shot at and luckily missed by U-XI (Ex German UB-15).

Renamed S8 after being converted to a patrol boat.

Events

 23-01-1906   Launched
 10-04-1906   Completed
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