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The Grand Fleet Battle Orders specified that the top speed on the surface was 13 knots, but that a more realistic "sea-going speed" was 11 knots.{{GoldingGFBOs|p. 46}}
  
 
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Revision as of 14:36, 19 November 2013

The Royal Navy's eight "D" Class Submarines entered service between 1908 and 1911.

They were significantly larger than the preceding classes and, with twice the endurance offered the British their first plausible ocean-going submarines.

Performance

The Grand Fleet Battle Orders specified that the top speed on the surface was 13 knots, but that a more realistic "sea-going speed" was 11 knots.[1]

Torpedoes

  • three 18-in tubes (two forward and one stern), six torpedoes

Guns

in D 4 only:

  • one 12-pdr

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Golding. Grand Fleet Battle Orders. p. 46.

Bibliography

  • Gray, Randal (editor) (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).


"D" Class Submarine
Vickers Boats
  D 1 D 2 D 3  
  D 4 D 5 D 6  
Chatham Boats
  D 7 D 8  
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