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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
Died: 12-03-1918
Aspinall, Paul John  J 11940
Leading Signalman Died: 12-03-1918 Aged: 23
Benham, Thomas William  K 18225
Stoker 1st Class Died: 12-03-1918 Aged: 24
Coombs, Daniel  232480
Leading Seaman Died: 12-03-1918 Aged: 29
Cozens, James  K 13367
Stoker 1st Class Died: 12-03-1918 Aged: 26
Dawes, Arthur  J 71067
Able Seaman Born: 27-01-1896 Died: 12-03-1918 Aged: 22
RN DoB 27/01/1897. Actual 27/01/1896
Evans, John Conde  J 27873
Able Seaman Died: 12-03-1918 Aged: 20
Fisher, George Edward  K 14432
Stoker 1st Class Died: 12-03-1918 Aged: 24
Gardner, Harry Raymond  M 2600
Engine Room Artificer 4th Class Died: 12-03-1918 Aged: 22
Hall, Alfred Atkinson  (RNR)
Temporary Lieutenant Died: 12-03-1918 Aged: 25
Harrington, Charles Thomas  K 22388
Stoker 1st Class Born: 05-05-1894 Died: 12-03-1918 Aged: 23
RN DoB 05/05/1895
Johnson, Robert  M 11024
Engine Room Artificer 4th Class Died: 12-03-1918 Aged: 25
Larby, Charles Ernest  J 17309
Able Seaman Died: 12-03-1918 Aged: 22
Lister, Albert Samuel  J3573
Petty Officer Died: 12-03-1918 Aged: 25
Maitland-Dougall, William McKinstry  (RCN)
Lieutenant Died: 12-03-1918 Aged: 23
Commanding Officer
Marshall, Edwin Harold  K 5747
Leading Stoker Died: 12-03-1918 Aged: 28
Mitchell, Walter John  236832
Able Seaman Died: 12-03-1918 Aged: 29
Osborn, William Charles  163372
Petty Officer Born: 08-10-1874 Died: 12-03-1918 Aged: 43
RN DoB 08/10/1876. Actual 08/10/1874
Pilkington, Ernest  M 12624
Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class Died: 12-03-1918 Aged: 29
Powell, Henry William  J 9374
Able Seaman Died: 12-03-1918 Aged: 24
Powell, John  307881
Stoker Petty Officer Born: 29-11-1887 Died: 12-03-1918 Aged: 30
RN DoB 29/05/1886
Sanger, George James Thomas  J 42592
Ordinary Telegraphist Died: 12-03-1918 Aged: 18
Stringer, Albert Edward  K 14251
Stoker 1st Class Born: 29-05-1887 Died: 12-03-1918 Aged: 30
RN DoB 29/05/1886
Turbett, Richard  270690
Chief Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class Died: 12-03-1918 Aged: 36
Walcott, Robert Henry Hinds  SS 6939
Able Seaman Died: 12-03-1918 Aged: 20
Ward, Arnold Robert  M 10906
Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class Died: 12-03-1918 Aged: 29
Whorton, Ebenezer  237619
Leading Seaman Died: 12-03-1918 Aged: 28
Willett, Alexander George  K 15935
Leading Stoker Died: 12-03-1918 Aged: 24
Wingfield-Stratford, Esme John Richard 
Lieutenant Died: 12-03-1918 Aged: 21
Yeates, Frederick William  K 23427
Stoker 1st Class Born: 03-08-1893 Died: 12-03-1918 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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