HMS B5
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| Name: | HMS B5 |
| Builder: | Vickers |
| Launched: | 14 November 1905 |
| Completed: | 25 February 1906 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap 25 August 1921 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 287 tons surfaced 316 tons submerged |
| Length: | 135 ft (41 m) |
| Beam: | 13 ft 6 in (4.1 m) |
| Speed: | 12 kn (22 km/h) surfaced 7 kn (13 km/h) submerged |
| Range: | 1,300 nmi (2,400 km) at 8 kn (15 km/h) surfaced |
| Complement: | 15 |
| Armament: | 2 × 18 in (460 mm) bow torpedo tubes |
HMS B5 was a Royal Navy B class submarine, built at Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness, launched 14 November 1905 and completed 25 February 1906.
B5 was sold on 25 August 1921 to AJ Anderson, then sold again on 1 March 1922 to J Smith, Poole.
[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.
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