HMS A10

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Career
Builder:	Vickers Barrow-in-Furness
Launched:	8 February 1905
Fate:	Sold for scrap, 8 October 1920
General characteristics
Displacement:	190 tons surfaced, 207 tons submerged
Length:	105.25 ft (32.08 m)
Beam:	12.75 ft (3.89 m)
Draught:	10.5 ft (3.2 m)
Propulsion:	550 hp petrol engine 150 hp electric engine
Speed:	11 knots (20 km/h) maximum surfaced 8 knots (15 km/h) maximum submerged
Range:	325 nautical miles (602 km) at 11 knots (20 km/h) surfaced 20 nautical miles (40 km) at 6 knots (11 km/h) submerged
Complement:	11 (2 officers and 9 ratings)
Armament:	Two 18 inch (457 mm) torpedo tubes, plus two reloads

HMS A10 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 all members of her class, she was built at Vickers Barrow-in-Furness.

[edit] References

• Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475. 
• A Class (1902) Submarines Class Overview. Maritime Quest. Retrieved on 2007-08-06.

[edit] External links

• MaritimeQuest HMS A-10 Pages

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