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HMS A1 |
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HMS A1 Laid Down : 19th February 1902 Launched : 9th July 1902 Completed : 27th July 1903 Type : Submarine Class : A Builder : Vickers Maxim Country : UK Pennants : A1 Fate : Used as target from 1904 and sunk August 1911. |
| Yard No.285 Originally laid down as Submarine Torpedo Boat No.6 She was an enlarged and improved Holland class submarine - 40 ft (12 m) longer than the Royal Navy's five "Holland"-type boats. The most notable improvement was the addition of a conning tower. ubsequent A class boats were even larger and differed from her in several respects. Like all members of her class, she was built at Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness. She was launched on 9 July 1902. Before she left the yard she suffered from a hydrogen explosion. Later while under tow to Portsmouth to join with the rest of the navy's submarines seawater managed to reach her batteries which gave off chlorine gas forcing the evacuation of the vessel. |
She was accidentally sunk in the Solent on 18 March 1904 whilst carrying out a practice attack on Juno by being struck on the starboard side of the conning tower by a mail steamer, SS Berwick Castle which was en route from Southampton to Hamburg. She sank in only 39 ft (12 m) of water, but the boat flooded and the entire crew was drowned. One consequence was that all subsequent Royal Navy submarines were equipped with a watertight hatch at the bottom of the conning tower. She was raised on 18 April 1904 and repaired and re-entered service. Following a petrol explosion in August 1910, she was converted to a testbed for the Admiralty's Anti-Submarine Committee. She was lost a year later when running submerged but unmanned under automatic pilot. Although the position of her sinking was known at the time, all efforts to locate her were fruitless. It was not until 1989 that the wreck was discovered by a local fisherman at Bracklesham Bay, approximately 5 mi (8.0 km) away.[8] It is thought that she was only partially flooded when she sank, and the resulting partial buoyancy meant that the wreck moved in the strong local currents. |
HMS A1 Photos for Sale |
  The Coning Tower of A 1. |   Submarine A1 (nearest depot ship) and three Holland Class submarines. |
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.jpg) .jpg "Newspaper report of the Inquest into the loss of A1") Newspaper report of the Inquest into the loss of A1 Inquest Newspaper cutting |
Timeline Entries : | |||
19th February 1902 - Laid down at Vickers sons and Maxim Ltd, Barrow-in-Furness 19th February 1902 - Laid down at Vickers (Barrow) 9th July 1902 - Launched 23rd July 1903 - Completed 1st August 1903 - Arrived Portsmouth 22nd September 1903 - Carried out torpedo practice in Stokes Bay 14th March 1904 - Lt. Mansergh in Command 14th March 1904 - Rammed by SS Berwick 1.5miles off Nab light July 1904 - Used for target practice April 1909 - Based at Portsmouth | |||
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