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H 1

Built By: Vickers (Canada)
Build Group: H1
Fate: Sold 7th March 1921. Broken up at Malta.

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Commanders
1915: Lieutenant  W B Pirie  
1917: Lieutenant   Owen  
1918: Lieutenant  H E Heaton  

1915: Dardanelles Flotilla. Hindu Kush at Mudros, Lemnos.
1917-1918: Adriatic Squadron. Venice. HMS Adamant, Brindisi

This Submarine was one of a Group of ten H Class submarines ordered in the Emergency War Programme of November 1914 and built (using American supplied components) at the Canadian Vickers Yard at Montreal. Of these Submarines H1 to H4 were commissioned in late May 1915 at Quebec City and then made their way to the Mediterranean escorted by the Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Calgarian.

Sailed in company with H2, H3 and H4 from St. John's, Newfoundland to Gibraltar with the AMC Calgarian. Each boat was towed for one day to allow maintenance to be carried out.

Whilst in the Sea of Marmara in 1915 engaged and sank one gunboat, five steamers and seventeen large sailing ships.

She also destroyed three trains all by gun action.

Events

11-01-1915 Laid Down
01-04-1915 Launched
26-05-1915 Completed
17-04-1918 Accidentally attacked and torpedoed the Italian H5. The Italian was way out of her position and had wandered into H1's patrol area.
07-02-1921 Sold to be broken up at Malta.
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