| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | C1 |
| Fate: | Converted to Surface Patrol Craft and renamed 'S8' for service on the Otranto Barrage. Scrapped in October 1920. |
| 1918: | Lieutenant | A Newbold |
1914: 5th Flotilla Chatham, HMS Thames
1918: 6th Flotilla. Portsmouth.
Served in the Mediterranean and was also sent to Venice.
Converted to Surface Patrol Craft and renamed 'S8' for service on the Otranto Barrage.
| 13-11-1905 | Laid Down |
| 10-07-1906 | Launched |
| 30-10-1906 | Completed |
| 23-04-1918 | Filled with dynamite and scheduled to be blown up at Zeebrugge Mole but was spared |
| Length overall | 143 ft |
| Beam | 13 ft |
| Displacement | Surface 290 tons |
| Draught | 11.5 ft |
| Submerged 320 tons | |
| Diving Depth | 100 ft |
| Speed | Surface 13 knots (design) |
| Surface 13+ knots (service) | |
| Submerged 7.5+ knots (design) | |
| Submerged 8 knots (service) | |
| Machinery | 600 hp petrol engine |
| 200 hp electric motor | |
| No. of shafts | 1 |
| Propeller | 3 blades, 5 ft 7 inch diameter |
| Armament | 2 x 18 inch bow torpedo tubes (4 torpedoes carried) |
| Endurance | Surface: 1300 miles at 9 knots (design) |
| Fuel | 15.5 tons (Petrol) |
| Surface: 910 miles at full power (service) | |
| Submerged: 16 miles at 8 knots | |
| Complement | 2 x officers, 14 x ratings |
The last of four Chinese Yuan diesel electric submarine has appeared. There was no official information released, but based on photos available it appears to be another development in China's taking Russian submarine technology and adapting it for Chinese designs.
A collection of song lyrics, poems and humorous observations informed by the authors' combined experiences in the Royal Navy 1950s-1980s
Richard Barr and Bernie Bruen met while serving in the Royal Navy in the 1970s aboard the aircraft carrier HMS Bulwark. With other crew members they formed a ship's band, which went on to perform under the unlikely name The Malawi International Airways String Quartet, MIASQ for short, entertaining audiences in various far-flung parts of the world with their light-hearted ditties about nautical life
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| Length overall | 143 ft |
| Beam | 13 ft |
| Displacement | Surface 290 tons |
| Draught | 11.5 ft |
| Submerged 320 tons | |
| Diving Depth | 100 ft |
| Speed | Surface 13 knots (design) |
| Surface 13+ knots (service) | |
| Submerged 7.5+ knots (design) | |
| Submerged 8 knots (service) | |
| Machinery | 600 hp petrol engine |
| 200 hp electric motor | |
| No. of shafts | 1 |
| Propeller | 3 blades, 5 ft 7 inch diameter |
| Armament | 2 x 18 inch bow torpedo tubes (4 torpedoes carried) |
| Endurance | Surface: 1300 miles at 9 knots (design) |
| Fuel | 15.5 tons (Petrol) |
| Surface: 910 miles at full power (service) | |
| Submerged: 16 miles at 8 knots | |
| Complement | 2 x officers, 14 x ratings |
The last of four Chinese Yuan diesel electric submarine has appeared. There was no official information released, but based on photos available it appears to be another development in China's taking Russian submarine technology and adapting it for Chinese designs.
A collection of song lyrics, poems and humorous observations informed by the authors' combined experiences in the Royal Navy 1950s-1980s
Richard Barr and Bernie Bruen met while serving in the Royal Navy in the 1970s aboard the aircraft carrier HMS Bulwark. With other crew members they formed a ship's band, which went on to perform under the unlikely name The Malawi International Airways String Quartet, MIASQ for short, entertaining audiences in various far-flung parts of the world with their light-hearted ditties about nautical life
13 pages added or updated in the last 4 month
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