HMS A8

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Career

Builder:	Vickers Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down:
Launched:	January 23, 1905
Status:	Scrapped 1920
General Characteristics
Displacement:	190 tons surfaced, 207 tons submerged
Length:	105.25 feet (32 m)
Beam:	12.75 feet (3.9 m)
Draught:	10.5 feet (3.2 m)
Propulsion:	550 hp petrol engine 150 hp electric engine
Speed:	11 knots maximum surfaced 8 knots maximum submerged
Range:	325 miles at 11 knots surfaced 20 miles at 6 knots submerged
Complement:	11 (2 officers and 9 ratings)
Armament:	Two 18 inch (457 mm) torpedo tubes, plus two reloads

HMS A8 was an early Royal Navy submarine.

She was a member of Group Two of the first British A-class of submarines (a second, much different A-class submarine appeared towards the end of the Second World War). Like the other members of her class, she was built at Vickers Barrow-in-Furness.

She suffered an explosion whilst running on the surface in Plymouth Sound on May 8, 1905 and sank with the loss of her crew. She was salvaged, repaired and recommisioned and used for training during the First World War. She was scrapped in October 1920 at Dartmouth.

British A-class submarine

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