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D 3 (I 73)

Built By: Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group: D
Fate: Erroneously sunk when mistaken for a U-boat on the 12th March 1918 by a French airship while in the Channel.
D 3 (I 73)
D 3 (I 73)

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Commanders
1911: Lieutenant Commander   Edward Courtney Boyle
1918: Lieutenant   William McKinstry Maitland-Dougall (RCN)

1914: 8th Flotilla Portsmouth, HMS Maidstone and Adamant

Lt W Maitland (RCN) was the first Canadian Officer to command a British submarine.

1914: 8th Flotilla. HMS Maidstone, Harwich

Supported the British surface fleet at the 'Battle of Helgoland

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The Loss of HMS D3

The loss of the D3 was a tragedy in itself, due to the circumstances and the fact that it was close to the end of WW1.

Roll of Honour
29
 
Aspinall, Paul John  J 11940
Died: 12th Mar, 1918.
Leading Signalman Aged: 23
Benham, Thomas William  K 18225
Died: 12th Mar, 1918.
Stoker 1st Class Aged: 24
Coombs, Daniel  232480
Died: 12th Mar, 1918.
Leading Seaman Aged: 29
Cozens, James  K 13367
Died: 12th Mar, 1918.
Stoker 1st Class Aged: 26
Dawes, Arthur  J 71067 Born: 27th Jan, 1896. 
Died: 12th Mar, 1918.
Able Seaman Aged: 22
RN DoB 27/01/1897. Actual 27/01/1896
Evans, John Conde  J 27873
Died: 12th Mar, 1918.
Able Seaman Aged: 20
Fisher, George Edward  K 14432
Died: 12th Mar, 1918.
Stoker 1st Class Aged: 24
Gardner, Harry Raymond  M 2600
Died: 12th Mar, 1918.
Engine Room Artificer 4th Class Aged: 22
Hall, Alfred Atkinson  (RNR)
Died: 12th Mar, 1918.
Temporary Lieutenant Aged: 25
Harrington, Charles Thomas  K 22388 Born: 5th May, 1894. 
Died: 12th Mar, 1918.
Stoker 1st Class Aged: 23
RN DoB 05/05/1895
Johnson, Robert  M 11024
Died: 12th Mar, 1918.
Engine Room Artificer 4th Class Aged: 25
Larby, Charles Ernest  J 17309
Died: 12th Mar, 1918.
Able Seaman Aged: 22
Lister, Albert Samuel  J3573
Died: 12th Mar, 1918.
Petty Officer Aged: 25
Maitland-Dougall, William McKinstry  (RCN)
Died: 12th Mar, 1918.
Lieutenant Aged: 23
Commanding Officer
Marshall, Edwin Harold  K 5747
Died: 12th Mar, 1918.
Leading Stoker Aged: 28
Mitchell, Walter John  236832
Died: 12th Mar, 1918.
Able Seaman Aged: 29
Osborn, William Charles  163372 Born: 8th Oct, 1874. 
Died: 12th Mar, 1918.
Petty Officer Aged: 43
RN DoB 08/10/1876. Actual 08/10/1874
Pilkington, Ernest  M 12624
Died: 12th Mar, 1918.
Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class Aged: 29
Powell, Henry William  J 9374
Died: 12th Mar, 1918.
Able Seaman Aged: 24
Powell, John  307881 Born: 29th Nov, 1887. 
Died: 12th Mar, 1918.
Stoker Petty Officer Aged: 30
RN DoB 29/05/1886
Sanger, George James Thomas  J 42592
Died: 12th Mar, 1918.
Ordinary Telegraphist Aged: 18
Stringer, Albert Edward  K 14251 Born: 29th May, 1887. 
Died: 12th Mar, 1918.
Stoker 1st Class Aged: 30
RN DoB 29/05/1886
Turbett, Richard  270690
Died: 12th Mar, 1918.
Chief Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class Aged: 36
Walcott, Robert Henry Hinds  SS 6939
Died: 12th Mar, 1918.
Able Seaman Aged: 20
Ward, Arnold Robert  M 10906
Died: 12th Mar, 1918.
Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class Aged: 29
Whorton, Ebenezer  237619
Died: 12th Mar, 1918.
Leading Seaman Aged: 28
Willett, Alexander George  K 15935
Died: 12th Mar, 1918.
Leading Stoker Aged: 24
Wingfield-Stratford, Esme John Richard 
Died: 12th Mar, 1918.
Lieutenant Aged: 21
Yeates, Frederick William  K 23427 Born: 3rd Aug, 1893. 
Died: 12th Mar, 1918.
Stoker 1st Class Aged: 24
RN DoB 03/02/1894

Events

 15-03-1910   Laid Down
 17-10-1910   Launched
 30-08-1911   Completed
 12-03-1918   D3 was sunk in error in Channel by a French airship

D3 left Gosport on 7th March 1918 for an anti-submarine patrol in the English Channel. Little is known of her patrol movements but it is believed that a submarine spotted by a Royal Naval Air Service airship on the 11th was D3. On the 12th March the French airship AT-0 was patrolling when at 1420 a vessel was spotted to her north east. The airship drew close for recognition purposes and according to her commander, the submarine fired rockets at her. Four 52-kilo bombs were dropped by the airship. The submarine disappeared but several minutes later men were seen in the water. Attempts were made by the airship to rescue the men but it proved too difficult. The airship withdrew to seek help but all the men had drowned by the time it arrived. It is clear that D3 was the victim of a serious identification error on the part of the French airship, with identification rockets being mistaken for aggressive gunfire.
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