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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.
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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
Died: 03-11-1914
Blunsdon, Frederick Drury  203087
Petty Officer Died: 03-11-1914 Aged: 31
Boardman, Wright  237913
Leading Seaman Died: 03-11-1914 Aged: 24
Bradley, Frederick Elkin   302220
Leading Stoker Died: 03-11-1914 Aged: 29
Brodie, Donald Francis O'Callaghan 
Lieutenant Died: 03-11-1914 Aged: 26
Copland, William John  271454
Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class Died: 03-11-1914 Aged: 31
Crimp, George  217450
Leading Seaman Died: 03-11-1914 Aged: 30
Dowsett, William Richard Cass  J 8219
Signalman Died: 03-11-1914 Aged: 20
Dunne, Joseph  J 14000
Able Seaman Died: 03-11-1914 Aged: 21
Houlcroft, Edward  M 2924
Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class Died: 03-11-1914 Aged: 26
Ingham, Thomas  K 7494
Stoker Died: 03-11-1914 Aged: 22
King, George Clarence  J 5894
Telegraphist Died: 03-11-1914 Aged: 21
Leake, John Robert  304084
Acting Leading Stoker Died: 03-11-1914 Aged: 30
Norris, Albert  187835
Leading Seaman Died: 03-11-1914 Aged: 34
Penhaligon, Richard Charles  223326
Stoker 1st Class Died: 03-11-1914 Aged: 27
Simmons, Sidney Charles Stanley  K 1975
Stoker 1st Class Died: 03-11-1914 Aged: 24
Smith, Arthur Cecil  DSM 270627
Chief Engine Room Artificer 1st Class Died: 03-11-1914 Aged: 33
Smith, Timothy  344519
Stoker Petty Officer Died: 03-11-1914 Aged: 32
Tilley, John Thomas Percival  272256
Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class Died: 03-11-1914 Aged: 23
Whiting, Harry  K 7502
Stoker 1st Class Died: 03-11-1914 Aged: 22
Wilcox, Ernest  222115
Able Seaman Died: 03-11-1914 Aged: 29
Worth, Ernest  K 2292
Stoker 1st Class Died: 03-11-1914 Aged: 23

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.
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