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C 1 (I 31)

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.
C1
C1 & C2 in company with others
C1, C3 and C10 alongside possible depot ship at Harwich
H.M. Submarine C1 loading torpedoes in company with C5 and C2.

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Commanders
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.

Events

 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
C1 Specification
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
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