| Built By: | Chatham Dockyard (Medway) |
| Build Group: | C1 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 26th May 1921. |
| 1911: | Lieutenant | Martin Eric Dunbar-Nasmith |
1914: 4th Flotilla Portsmouth, HMS Arrogant and Hazard
Roll of Honour |
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| Gardner, Joseph Alfred |
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| Chief Stoker | ||||||
| Died of heart failure | ||||||
| 11-03-1907 | Laid Down |
| 10-10-1908 | Launched |
| 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 |
| Class: | 1925 - 1946: Odin Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | O2 |
| Fate: | |
| On 1st August 1940 HMS Oswald was rammed by the Italian Destroyer Vivaldi off Cape Spartivento. The Submarine sank and three of the crew members were lost. The remainder of the crew survived and were taken as Prisoners of War. | |
This witty and perceptive account of the early years of submarine development contains much new material and the lives of the forgotten pioneers of submarines.
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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 |
| Class: | 1925 - 1946: Odin Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | O2 |
| Fate: | |
| On 1st August 1940 HMS Oswald was rammed by the Italian Destroyer Vivaldi off Cape Spartivento. The Submarine sank and three of the crew members were lost. The remainder of the crew survived and were taken as Prisoners of War. | |
This witty and perceptive account of the early years of submarine development contains much new material and the lives of the forgotten pioneers of submarines.
It includes many wonderful inventions and even more colourful inventors, but focuses primarily on John Philip Holland, the Irish-American genius who took submarine development out of the hands of lunatics and visionaries and turned it into a deadly weapon of war
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