H.M.S. C 3 (1906)

H.M.S. C 3 (1906)
Pendant Number:	I.33 (1914) C.3 (mid 1915)^[1]
Builder:	Vickers^[2]
Launched:	3 Oct, 1906^[3]
Expended:	23 Apr, 1918^[4]
Fate:	as demolition bomb

H.M.S. C 3 was one of thirty-eight "C" class coastal submarines completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

On 8 April, 1914, C 3 left Sheerness for Harwich to join the Fifth Submarine Flotilla.^[5]

She was destroyed when she was used as a demolition bomb in the Zeebrugge Raid, successfully destroying a viaduct to isolate the Mole during the attack.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Lieutenant & Commander Tom K. Triggs, 17 August, 1908^[6] – 8 February, 1913
Lieutenant & Commander Edward W. B. Ryan, 8 February, 1913^[7] – 31 October, 1914
Lieutenant-Commander George C. Street, 31 October, 1914^[8] – 27 May, 1915
Lieutenant & Commander Cyril G. B. Coltart, 30 May, 1915 – 26 February, 1917
Lieutenant in Command Guy D'Oyly-Hughes, 26 February, 1917 – 9 July, 1917
Lieutenant Richard D. Sandford, 23 March, 1918^[9] – 23 April, 1918^[10] (in command when sub expended at Zeebrugge as demolition bomb)

Footnotes

↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 83.
↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 87.
↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 87.
↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 87.
↑ "Movements in Home Waters." The Times (London, England), Thursday, Apr 09, 1914; pg. 6; Issue 40493.
↑ The Navy List. (August, 1912). p. 385.
↑ The Navy List. (June, 1914). p. 382.
↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 385.
↑ Sandford Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/53/78. f. 77.
↑ Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. pp. 128, 129.