| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | V |
| Fate: | Sold for scrapping in November 1921. |
Completely double-hulled.
Roll of Honour |
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| Blaber, Charles Stanley |
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| Able Seaman | ||||||
| Died of heart failure following a bout of tonsillitis | ||||||
| Length overall | 147 ft 6 inch |
| Beam | 12 ft |
| Depth | 13 ft 4 inch |
| Displacement | 391 tons (surface) |
| 457 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 150 ft |
| Speed | Surface 13 knots (design) |
| Surface 14 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 8.5 knots (design) | |
| Submerged 9 knots (service) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Endurance | * Surface: 1200 miles at full power (design) |
| * Surface: 1130 miles at full power (service) | |
| Submerged: 74 miles at 5 knots (design) | |
| Submerged: 50 miles at 5 knots (service) | |
| Complement | 20 |
| Note | * These figures are accepted for V2 to V4, but V1 carried 6% more fuel and the endurance figures should be increased proportionately. |
A survivor Of K13 - It must be clearly understood, by all those who read my War Experiences, that, they were only written under pressure from my relatives and also the Friends I made during the Great War. They all tell me that my experiences are so varied that they deem it my duty that I should try and write them in Book Form. I think myself that my effort should prove very interesting to everyone and instructive to the younger generation.
In Blind Mans Bluff, veteran investigative journalist Sherry Sontag and award-winning New York Times reporter Christopher Drew reveal an extraordinary underwater world. Showing for the first time how the American Navy sent submarines wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables, Sontag and Drew unveil new evidence that the Navy's own negligence might have been responsible for the loss of the USS Scorpion, a submarine that disappeared with all hands at the height of the Cold War.
They disclose for the first time details of the bitter war between the CIA and the Navy and how it threatened to sabotage one of America's most important undersea missions. They tell the complete story of the audacious attempt to steal a Soviet submarine with the help of eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, and how it was doomed from the start.
And Sontag and Drew reveal how the Navy used the comforting notion of deep-sea rescue vehicles to hide operations that were more James Bond than Jacques Cousteau. Stretching from the years immediately after World War II to the post-Cold War new reality of warfare, Blind Mans Bluff reads like a spy thriller, but with one important difference - everything in it is true.
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| Length overall | 147 ft 6 inch |
| Beam | 12 ft |
| Depth | 13 ft 4 inch |
| Displacement | 391 tons (surface) |
| 457 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 150 ft |
| Speed | Surface 13 knots (design) |
| Surface 14 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 8.5 knots (design) | |
| Submerged 9 knots (service) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Endurance | * Surface: 1200 miles at full power (design) |
| * Surface: 1130 miles at full power (service) | |
| Submerged: 74 miles at 5 knots (design) | |
| Submerged: 50 miles at 5 knots (service) | |
| Complement | 20 |
| Note | * These figures are accepted for V2 to V4, but V1 carried 6% more fuel and the endurance figures should be increased proportionately. |
A survivor Of K13 - It must be clearly understood, by all those who read my War Experiences, that, they were only written under pressure from my relatives and also the Friends I made during the Great War. They all tell me that my experiences are so varied that they deem it my duty that I should try and write them in Book Form. I think myself that my effort should prove very interesting to everyone and instructive to the younger generation.
In Blind Mans Bluff, veteran investigative journalist Sherry Sontag and award-winning New York Times reporter Christopher Drew reveal an extraordinary underwater world. Showing for the first time how the American Navy sent submarines wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables, Sontag and Drew unveil new evidence that the Navy's own negligence might have been responsible for the loss of the USS Scorpion, a submarine that disappeared with all hands at the height of the Cold War.
They disclose for the first time details of the bitter war between the CIA and the Navy and how it threatened to sabotage one of America's most important undersea missions. They tell the complete story of the audacious attempt to steal a Soviet submarine with the help of eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, and how it was doomed from the start.
And Sontag and Drew reveal how the Navy used the comforting notion of deep-sea rescue vehicles to hide operations that were more James Bond than Jacques Cousteau. Stretching from the years immediately after World War II to the post-Cold War new reality of warfare, Blind Mans Bluff reads like a spy thriller, but with one important difference - everything in it is true.
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