HMS C29
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HMS C29 was a British C class submarine built by Vickers, Barrow. She was laid down on 4 June 1908 and was commissioned on 17 September 1909.
HMS C29 sank a merchant ship while patrolling the Gulf of Riga in the Baltic.
HMS C29 was involved in the U-boat trap tactic. The tactic was to use a decoy trawler to tow a submarine. Then when a U-boat is sighted, the tow line and communication line is slipped and the submarine would attack the U-boat. The tactic was partly successful but it was abandoned after the loss of 2 C class submarines. In both cases, all the crew were lost.
HMS C29 was one of the two C class submarines sunk because of the tactic. She was mined when her trawler (Ariadne) strayed into a minefield in the Humber Estuary on 29 August 1915.
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- Submarines, War Beneath The Waves, From 1776 To The Present Day, by Robert Hutchinson
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