| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | B |
| Fate: | Rammed and sunk by SS Amerika off Dover 4th October 1912, one survivor, Lt. R.I. Pulleyne. |
| 1912: | Lieutenant | P B O'Brien |
Based on the depot ship HMS Forth
Roll of Honour |
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| Andrews, Richard Sydney |
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| Barratt, Sidney Charles |
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| Bryant, James Arthur |
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| RN DoB 02/05/1888 | ||||||
| Douglas, Alexander |
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| House, Walter Charles |
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| Keast, Herbert |
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| RN DoB 27/04/1886 | ||||||
| Lancey, William Barrow |
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| RN DoB 21/06/1884 | ||||||
| Ledo, William |
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| Lee, Eneas |
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| At birth Lee, Aeneas Served as Lee, Eneas. RN DoB 06/05/1891 | ||||||
| Millar, William Crawford |
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| Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class | ||||||
| RN DoB 06/05/1891 | ||||||
| O'Brien, Percy Borough |
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| Commanding Officer | ||||||
| Reid, William |
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| Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class | ||||||
| Rivers, Walter Charles |
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| RN DoB 07/11/1886 | ||||||
| Russell, Frank |
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| RN DoB 23/06/1879 | ||||||
| Sherrell, William Henry |
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| Able Seaman | ||||||
| 30-10-1905 | Launched |
| 09-12-1905 | Completed |
| 04-10-1912 | Sank off Dover after collision with SS Amerika In the early hours of 4 October HMS B2 was on the surface about four miles north east of Dover when the 23,000-ton steamer SS Amerika, on passage from Hamburg to New York, via Southampton, collided with the submarine. B2 was struck just forward of the conning tower, a fatal blow that sent the submarine immediately to the bottom. |
At about 0255 we were pooped (being caught in a following sea and pushed forward at speed and a downward motion). We should have been hove to and just about keeping station as we would plough into the oncoming sea with waves reaching 50+ feet.
The Royal Navy's Submarine Command Course, or 'Perisher', is a unique course, training, assessing and qualifying officers for submarine command which is, itself, unique, challenging and demanding; the epitome of mission command, with no succour, referral or support in a continuously threatening environment. It is therefore essential that those 'in command' are proven to be worthy and capable of their appointment.
The evolution of 'Perisher' is in recognisable periods: the earliest days, following the submarine's introduction into the Royal Navy, was an autodidactic existence with COs learning from their peers and by experimentation.
By 1917 circumstances had conflated to create the Periscope School and the Periscope Course to train and qualify COs whose characteristics were now fully formed. The interwar period was a difficult time, but it produced new submarines and technological innovations just in time for the Second World War and the most intense evolutionary period for 'Perisher'.
Post-1945 to 1969 experienced two evolutions: Commander Sandy Woodward's codification of the art of attacking and a shift in emphasis from purely 'periscope eye' attacking toward the development of safety and tactical prowess in students. In the 1970s-1980s, two parallel courses satisfied the demand for COs from an expanding diesel-nuclear submarine fleet using SSKs and then in 1989, an SSN.
The final period, 1990-2017 continues today with an all-nuclear Perisher and a curriculum to meet a changing battlespace, new weapons and tactics. Throughout its history, 'Perisher' has shaped the submarine commanding officer and he, in return, has shaped 'Perisher'.
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At about 0255 we were pooped (being caught in a following sea and pushed forward at speed and a downward motion). We should have been hove to and just about keeping station as we would plough into the oncoming sea with waves reaching 50+ feet.
The Royal Navy's Submarine Command Course, or 'Perisher', is a unique course, training, assessing and qualifying officers for submarine command which is, itself, unique, challenging and demanding; the epitome of mission command, with no succour, referral or support in a continuously threatening environment. It is therefore essential that those 'in command' are proven to be worthy and capable of their appointment.
The evolution of 'Perisher' is in recognisable periods: the earliest days, following the submarine's introduction into the Royal Navy, was an autodidactic existence with COs learning from their peers and by experimentation.
By 1917 circumstances had conflated to create the Periscope School and the Periscope Course to train and qualify COs whose characteristics were now fully formed. The interwar period was a difficult time, but it produced new submarines and technological innovations just in time for the Second World War and the most intense evolutionary period for 'Perisher'.
Post-1945 to 1969 experienced two evolutions: Commander Sandy Woodward's codification of the art of attacking and a shift in emphasis from purely 'periscope eye' attacking toward the development of safety and tactical prowess in students. In the 1970s-1980s, two parallel courses satisfied the demand for COs from an expanding diesel-nuclear submarine fleet using SSKs and then in 1989, an SSN.
The final period, 1990-2017 continues today with an all-nuclear Perisher and a curriculum to meet a changing battlespace, new weapons and tactics. Throughout its history, 'Perisher' has shaped the submarine commanding officer and he, in return, has shaped 'Perisher'.
20 pages added or updated in the last 1 month
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