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D 5 (I 75)

Built By: Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group: D
Fate: Sunk by a mine thrown out of a German warship off Great Yarmouth on 3rd November 1914.
Credit: Dick Driver
D5

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Commanders
1911: Lieutenant   Godfrey Herbert

1914: 8th Flotilla Portsmouth, HMS Maidstone and Adamant
1914: 8th Flotilla. HMS Maidstone, Harwich.

On 3rd November 1914 Submarine D5 was on the surface, at night, off the East Coast hastening to sea to intercept a German Raiding Force. Lt Cdr Herbert, a short while previously, had relieved his Second Captain as 'Officer of the Watch' and was on the bridge when the submarine struck a mine and was sunk. Herbert found himself in the water and after a while he was rescued with his 3rd Hand and three of the crew. His Second Captain and twenty others of his crew were not so lucky.

Lt Cdr Godfrey Herbert had survived a near fatal accident to A4 in 1907 and had, in 1912, taken one of the C Class submarines to Hong Kong.

The survivors were:

Officers

Ratings

Roll of Honour

21
Blunsdon, Frederick Drury
203087
Died: 3rd Nov, 1914.
Aged: 31
Petty Officer
Boardman, Wright
237913
Died: 3rd Nov, 1914.
Aged: 24
Leading Seaman
Bradley, Frederick Elkin
302220
Died: 3rd Nov, 1914.
Aged: 29
Leading Stoker
Brodie, Donald Francis O'Callaghan
Died: 3rd Nov, 1914.
Aged: 26
Lieutenant
Copland, William John
271454
Died: 3rd Nov, 1914.
Aged: 31
Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class
Crimp, George
217450
Died: 3rd Nov, 1914.
Aged: 30
Leading Seaman
Dowsett, William Richard Cass
J 8219
Died: 3rd Nov, 1914.
Aged: 20
Signalman
Dunne, Joseph
J 14000
Died: 3rd Nov, 1914.
Aged: 21
Able Seaman
Houlcroft, Edward
M 2924
Died: 3rd Nov, 1914.
Aged: 26
Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class
Ingham, Thomas
K 7494
Died: 3rd Nov, 1914.
Aged: 22
Stoker
King, George Clarence
J 5894
Died: 3rd Nov, 1914.
Aged: 21
Telegraphist
Leake, John Robert
304084
Died: 3rd Nov, 1914.
Aged: 30
Acting Leading Stoker
Norris, Albert
187835
Died: 3rd Nov, 1914.
Aged: 34
Leading Seaman
Penhaligon, Richard Charles
223326
Died: 3rd Nov, 1914.
Aged: 27
Stoker 1st Class
Simmons, Sidney Charles Stanley
K 1975
Died: 3rd Nov, 1914.
Aged: 24
Stoker 1st Class
Smith, Arthur Cecil DSM
270627
Died: 3rd Nov, 1914.
Aged: 33
Chief Engine Room Artificer 1st Class
Smith, Timothy
344519
Died: 3rd Nov, 1914.
Aged: 32
Stoker Petty Officer
Tilley, John Thomas Percival
272256
Died: 3rd Nov, 1914.
Aged: 23
Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class
Whiting, Harry
K 7502
Died: 3rd Nov, 1914.
Aged: 22
Stoker 1st Class
Wilcox, Ernest
222115
Died: 3rd Nov, 1914.
Aged: 29
Able Seaman
Worth, Ernest
K 2292
Died: 3rd Nov, 1914.
Aged: 23
Stoker 1st Class

Events

23-02-1910  Laid Down
28-08-1911  Launched
19-01-1912  Completed
22-08-1914  Attacked and fired two torpedoes at the German Cruiser Rostock, no damage was caused.
03-11-1914  Lost

A force of German battle cruisers commenced bombarding the town of Lowestoft. HM Submarines D3, D5 and E10 were ordered to intercept the enemy off Terschelling. While proceeding on the surface to the interception point, D5 struck a drifting mine and was sunk.
D Specification
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