| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | C1 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in April 1922. |
1914: 5th Flotilla Chatham, HMS Thames
1918: 6th Flotilla. Portsmouth.
| 25-11-1905 | Laid Down |
| 18-10-1906 | Launched |
| 13-03-1907 | Completed |
| 26-09-1917 | Fired on a German submarine whilst on the surface and on seeing the U-boat disappear into the darkness assumed that she had missed. After the war when all the logs of the U-boats were obtained it was discovered that the attack had hit the U-boat on her starboard quarter and failed to explode. |
| 27-03-1918 | Whilst on the surface charging her batteries, she fired two torpedoes at a U-boat whilst off Beachy Head. The U-boat dived and the assumption was that she had missed. After the war when all the logs of the U-boats were obtained it was discovered that the attack proved partially successful in that the torpedoes hit the U-boat under the conning tower but had failed to explode. |
The authoritative story of the Royal Navy's first submarine campaign, told using new research. The Harwich Submarine Flotilla played a key role establishing British dominance in the North Sea at the beginning of the First World War. Letters, diaries, memoirs and combat reports of the participants are used to give a complete account.
Much of this is in print for the first time. Foreword by Rear Admiral Jonathan Westbrook CBE, former Royal Navy Submariner. Written in collaboration with the Friends of the Royal Navy Submarine Museum, with profits from royalties contributing towards the work of the Museum.
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The authoritative story of the Royal Navy's first submarine campaign, told using new research. The Harwich Submarine Flotilla played a key role establishing British dominance in the North Sea at the beginning of the First World War. Letters, diaries, memoirs and combat reports of the participants are used to give a complete account.
Much of this is in print for the first time. Foreword by Rear Admiral Jonathan Westbrook CBE, former Royal Navy Submariner. Written in collaboration with the Friends of the Royal Navy Submarine Museum, with profits from royalties contributing towards the work of the Museum.
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