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