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|
| Career |
 |
| Ordered: |
1900 |
| Laid down: |
By Holland Torpedo Boat Company |
| Launched: |
May 1902 |
| Commissioned: |
1902 |
| Foundered: |
8 August 1912 |
| Fate: |
Lost off Beachy Head |
| Struck: |
|
| General Characteristics |
| Displacement: |
?/105 tons (surface/submerged) |
| Length: |
63.44 feet |
| Beam: |
feet |
| Draught: |
feet |
| Propulsion & power: |
160 Horse Power gasoline engine for use when surfaced. 70 Horse Power electric motor for use when submerged |
| Speed: |
?/7 knots (surface/submerged) |
| Range: |
miles at knots/20 miles at 7 knots (surface / submerged) |
| Diving depth (feet): |
100 |
| Complement: |
Eight. Consisting of Lieutenant, Sub-Lieutenant, Coxswain, Torpedo Instructor, Chief Engineering Artificer, Leading Stoker, Stoker, Leading Seaman and Able Seaman |
| Armament (submerged): |
Up to three 18 inch torpedoes |
| Armament (surface): |
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| Motto: |
Unknown |
Holland 5 was the last of the five Holland class submarines ordered by the British Admiralty to evaluate the potential of the submarine with the Royal Navy[1] [2]. It is thought that she had one of the first periscopes ever designed.[3]
[edit] Wreck discovery and research
- 2000 Wreck of submarine discovered at a depth of 30m
- April 2001 The Archaeological Diving Unit conducted sonar scan and confirmed identity as Holland V
- 4 January 2005 The Department of Culture Media and Sport announced that the wreck was designated under the Protection of Wrecks Act[4].
- August 2005 and August 2006, amateur archaeologists have the opportunity to dive the wreck as part of a research programme led by official licensee Innes McCartney and nominated archaeologist Mark Beattie-Edwards[5], under the auspices of the Nautical Archaeology Society.
[edit] References
- ^ Advisory Committee on Historic Wreck Sites Annual report 2004
- ^ Advisory Committee on Historic Wreck Sites Annual report 2005
- ^ Explanatory note to the staturory instrument giving protection
- ^ DCMA press release on protection of Holland V
- ^ Holland V archaeological research project
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