HMS Holland 2
HMS Holland 2 was the second Royal Navy submarine to be built, and the first to be given a non-secret launch, in February 1902.
_and_submarine_No2.jpg.webp) Holland 2 alongside HMS Hazard | |
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| Name: | Holland 2 |
| Builder: | Vickers Maxim shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness |
| Laid down: | 4 February 1901 |
| Commissioned: | 1 August 1902 |
| Fate: | sold on 7 October 1913 |
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| 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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She was the second of the Holland-class submarines. Holland No. 2 was laid down on 4 February 1901 and commissioned on 1 August 1902, Lieutenant S. B. Evans in command.[2] She set the depth record for the British Holland-class, accidentally diving to 78 feet.[3]
In December 1902 she sustained some minor damage after a current took her off course and she accidentally surfaced directly underneath a brigantine.[4]
She was sold on 7 October 1913.
References
- 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 (36903). London. 20 October 1902. p. 8.
- Compton-Hall, Richard (1983). Submarine boats The beginnings of underwater warfare. London: Conway maritime press. p. 113. ISBN 0-85177-288-9.
- Gray, Edwyn (2003). Disasters of the Deep A Comprehensive Survey of Submarine Accidents & Disasters. Leo Cooper. pp. 72–73. ISBN 0-85052-987-5.
- Submarines, War Beneath The Waves, From 1776 to the Present Day, by Robert Hutchinson
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