HMS Holland 4
 HMS Holland 4 underway at Portsmouth, England. | |
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| Name: | Holland 4 |
| Builder: | Vickers Maxim shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness |
| Laid down: | 1902 |
| Launched: | 23 May 1902 |
| Commissioned: | 2 August 1903 |
| Fate: | Foundered 3 September 1912 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Submarine |
| Displacement: | 105 long tons (107 t) submerged |
| Length: | 63 ft 10 in (19.46 m)[1] |
| Beam: | 11 ft 9 in (3.58 m)[1] |
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| Speed: | 7 knots (8.1 mph; 13 km/h) submerged |
| Range: | 20 nmi (37 km) at 7 kn (8.1 mph; 13 km/h) submerged |
| Test depth: | 100 ft (30 m) |
| Complement: | 8 (Lieutenant, Sub-Lieutenant, Coxswain, Torpedo Instructor, Chief Engineering Artificer, Leading Stoker, Stoker, Leading Seaman and Able Seaman) |
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Holland-class submarine No 4 was launched on the 23 May 1902.[2] She was built by Vickers, at Barrow in Furness, Cumbria, United Kingdom, and was laid down in 1902. She was commissioned into the Royal Navy on 2 August 1903. In 1905 the submarine was fitted with a conning tower.[3] She was the only member of the Holland-class to be given this modification.[3] She foundered on 3 September 1912. She was salvaged and used as a gunnery target on 17 October 1914.
References
- 1 2 Hutchinson, Robert (2001). Submarines War Beneath the Waves From 1776 to the present day. HarperCollinsPublishers. pp. 25–27. ISBN 0-00-765333-6.
- ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Saturday, 24 May 1902. (36776), p. 8.
- 1 2 Tall, J.J; Paul Kemp (1996). HM Submarines in Camera An Illustrated History of British Submarines. Sutton Publishing. p. 7. ISBN 0-7509-0875-0.
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